Southern 100

[Roger Ram]

The island is viably quite busy with visitors on bikes.

It will be quite the embarrassment to the island and Manx Care if this evenings session isn’t able to resume due to “capacity issues” at Nobles Hospital when the roads are closed, the sun is out and loads of visitors are hoping to see the action they have come to the island for.

Edited July 8, 2024 by Roger Ram

[TheTeapot]

It would help if they didn't crash. 

 

[Roger Ram]

Just now, TheTeapot said:

It would help if they didn't crash. 

 

Not really the point.

If two admissions means the session is cancelled (which it is) then surely it should have never been scheduled to run anyway if you think back to last year.

An embarrassment and if I had paid thousands to come here I would be fuming

[TheTeapot]

People came last year and the racing got cancelled. 

[TheTeapot]

Gonna rain all day tomorrow too. FUME

[Manx Mole]

It begs the question about how well prepared Nobles is to deal with a mass casualty event should one (god forbid) happen.

[Two-lane]

Resilience is a word that seems to have been used a lot recently by politicians.

A two-car accident may involve at least people. There does not seem to be much safety margin.

[Mr Helmut Fromage]

35 minutes ago, Roger Ram said:

The island is viably quite busy with visitors on bikes.

It will be quite the embarrassment to the island and Manx Care if this evenings session isn’t able to resume due to “capacity issues” at Nobles Hospital when the roads are closed, the sun is out and loads of visitors are hoping to see the action they have come to the island for.

Why should the main Hospital structure around a minor hobby event-  capacity for the public is more important ?

[Gizo]

Govt killing off the S100. 

[Nellie]

18 minutes ago, Manx Mole said:

It begs the question about how well prepared Nobles is to deal with a mass casualty event should one (god forbid) happen.

There will be a specific plan for that type of situation which will involve scrambling all off-duty staff, bringing people from general practice into the hospital, maybe bringing retired people in to assist and so on. No comparison to what has happened this evening.

[Nellie]

36 minutes ago, Roger Ram said:

Not really the point.

If two admissions means the session is cancelled (which it is) then surely it should have never been scheduled to run anyway if you think back to last year.

An embarrassment and if I had paid thousands to come here I would be fuming

If these two riders both need urgent specialist attention, for example both have fractures which absorbs all available emergency orthopaedic capacity, you can see why the hospital won't want to risk any more similar casualties. They might also have already been stretched by other issues not connected to the racing. We don't know the full picture.

Nobles has more capacity built in for TT and MGP.

Edited July 8, 2024 by Nellie

[Steve_Christian]

10 minutes ago, Gizo said:

Govt killing off the S100. 

How??

[Manx Mole]

2 minutes ago, Nellie said:

There will be a specific plan for that type of situation which will involve scrambling all off-duty staff, bringing people from general practice into the hospital, maybe bringing retired people in to assist and so on. No comparison to what has happened this evening.

So, if they had to, they’d cope the best they could. 

It raises serious questions about future motorsports events where the likelihood of more than two competitors needing hospital care at the same time is high.

One could also infer that the S100 isn’t considered important enough to contemplate activating such a contingency plan for, even though the extent of the incident would be a lot smaller than other things that could possibly happen here.

[La Colombe]

38 minutes ago, Manx Mole said:

It begs the question about how well prepared Nobles is to deal with a mass casualty event should one (god forbid) happen.

I believe it's known as on a wing and a prayer. 

[wrighty]

41 minutes ago, Manx Mole said:

It begs the question about how well prepared Nobles is to deal with a mass casualty event should one (god forbid) happen.

As prepared as we can be. There is a system, and it gets rehearsed regularly. But in practice, if a plane were to crash into Douglas Prom with hundreds of casualties we wouldn’t cope, same as every other hospital. To quote Mike Tyson - Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. 
 

I’m amazed S100 wasn’t cancelled after last year’s carnage.