Major Incidents at Events

An event medical team is already on scene when a major incident happens, so it works inside what the Manchester Arena Inquiry called the care gap, before the emergency services reach casualties.

Sir John Saunders, chair of the inquiry, used the term for the period between an incident happening and the emergency services delivering care to casualties. Ten Second Triage was developed partly to help close it.

The team needs 2 skills: recognising what has happened and describing it in a way that mobilises everybody else, and sorting casualties with the tools the arriving services use. Planning Event Medical Cover and The Event Medical Team and Command cover the routine plan and the command structure this sits inside.