A set of general principles to guide all NHS organisations in developing their ability to respond to a major incident or incidents and to manage recovery whether the incident or incidents has effects locally, regionally, or nationally, within the context of the requirements of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004.
The following document replaces the command and control section of the NHS Emergency planning guidance 2005, which has been updated to reflect the revised responsibilities of the SHAs following the reconfiguration of the NHS in 2006 and 2007.
The purpose of this best practice guidance is to give NHS organisations support in planning, preparing and responding to incidents and emergencies that give rise to blast injuries. The principles apply regardless of the number of patients being treated. The guidance covers adults and children.
This guidance has been prepared under the auspices of the Department of Health’s Emergency Preparedness Division and with the expert input of an international symposium of experts that met in London in June 2007.
This is an underpinning section of the NHS Emergency planning guidance 2005 and must be used in conjunction with this and other relevant underpinning sections.
The purpose of this best practice guidance is to describe a general set of principles to National Health Service (NHS) organisations in planning, preparing and responding to all types of emergencies arising from any accident, natural disaster, failure of utilities or systems or hostile act resulting in an abnormal casualty situation or posing any threat to the health of the community or in the provision of services that involve significant numbers of burn injured patients. The guidance covers adults and children.
This is an underpinning section of the NHS Emergency Planning Guidance 2005 and must be used in conjunction with this and other relevant underpinning sections.
The purpose of this best practice guidance is to describe a general set of principles to NHS organisations in planning, preparing and responding to all types of emergencies arising from any accident, infectious epidemic, natural disaster, failure of utilities or systems, hostile acts resulting in an abnormal casualty situation or posing a threat to the health of the community or the provision of services that involve significant numbers of patients with requiring critical care. The guidance covers adults and children.
This is an underpinning section of the NHS Emergency planning guidance 2005 and must be used in conjunction with this and other relevant underpinning sections.
The purpose of the guidance is to describe a set of general principles to guide all NHS organisations in developing their ability to respond to a major incident or incidents and to manage recovery whether the incident or incidents has effects locally, regionally, or nationally, within the context of the requirements of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004. It replaces the NHS Emergency Planning Guidance 1998 and all other material previously included in or associated with that Guidance.
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