Excluding non-specialist personnel from exercises
Failure to include non-specialist ambulance personnel in multi-agency emergency exercising, compromising coordinated response.
14 items
4 sources
3 inquiries
Source spread
Where this theme appears
Excluding non-specialist personnel from exercises has been flagged across 4 independent accountability sources:
9 inquiry recs
2 PFD reports
2 committee recs
1 NAO rec
When the same issue appears across inquiries, coroner reports, and regulators independently, it indicates a recurring issue across the public record.
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Inquiry Recommendations (9)
MAI-142 — Compel LRF attendance from Category 1 and 2 responders
Recommendation: The Home Office should consider empowering the leadership of local resilience forums to compel the attendance of a senior representative of its Category 1 and Category 2 responders at all local resilience forum meetings. Inspections by His Majesty's Inspectorate of …
Gov response: The Home Secretary made a written statement to Parliament on 3 November 2022 following publication of Volume 2, acknowledging the findings on emergency response failures and stating the government would work with emergency services to …
Accepted
In progress
MAI-120 — Consider air ambulance integration into response
Recommendation: The Department of Health and Social Care, the NHS, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit, ambulance service trusts, Air Ambulances UK, Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters and JESIP should consider whether air ambulances should be integrated into the emergency response to Major …
Gov response: The Home Secretary made a written statement to Parliament on 3 November 2022 following publication of Volume 2, acknowledging the findings on emergency response failures and stating the government would work with emergency services to …
Accepted
In progress
MAI-119 — Integrate air ambulances into Major Incident response
Recommendation: The Department of Health and Social Care, the NHS, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit, ambulance service trusts, Air Ambulances UK, Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters and JESIP should consider what staff training and resources would be required to integrate air ambulance …
Gov response: The Home Secretary made a written statement to Parliament on 3 November 2022 following publication of Volume 2, acknowledging the findings on emergency response failures and stating the government would work with emergency services to …
Accepted
In progress
MAI-70 — Include non-specialist ambulance personnel in exercising
Recommendation: North West Ambulance Service should ensure that non specialist ambulance personnel are involved in multi agency exercising
Gov response: The Home Secretary made a written statement to Parliament on 3 November 2022 following publication of Volume 2, acknowledging the findings on emergency response failures and stating the government would work with emergency services to …
Accepted
In progress
MAI-28 — Senior emergency service representation at LRFs
Recommendation: Each emergency service should ensure that it is represented at a senior level at every meeting of a local resilience forum.
Gov response: The Home Secretary made a written statement to Parliament on 3 November 2022 following publication of Volume 2, acknowledging the findings on emergency response failures and stating the government would work with emergency services to …
Accepted
In progress
MAI-25 — Review embedding doctors with firearms teams
Recommendation: Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters should review the evidence heard during the Inquiry, including that heard in restricted sessions, to consider the advantages and disadvantages of embedding doctors with some police firearms teams, and how, if that is advantageous, it could …
Gov response: The Home Secretary made a written statement to Parliament on 3 November 2022 following publication of Volume 2, acknowledging the findings on emergency response failures and stating the government would work with emergency services to …
Accepted
In progress
MAI-3 — Cross-border ambulance training and exercising
Recommendation: All ambulance service trusts should undertake training and exercising with neighbouring ambulance service trusts to ensure that cross-border support is efficient and effective.
Gov response: The Home Secretary made a written statement to Parliament on 3 November 2022 following publication of Volume 2, acknowledging the findings on emergency response failures and stating the government would work with emergency services to …
Accepted
In progress
FENN-88 — Conduct biannual joint emergency services exercises involving staff and public
Recommendation: There shall be a joint exercise with the emergency services at least twice each year. London Underground must involve as many different fire stations, staff and members of the public as possible.
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HIDD-76 — Require BR and emergency services to maintain joint planning with table-top exercises
Recommendation: In the exercise of command and control at accident sites BR and the emergency services shall maintain their policy of joint planning supported by table-top exercises.
Unknown
PFD Reports (2)
Edward Maher, James Dunsby and Craig Roberts
Concerns: A new tracker system failed to identify static soldiers, commanders lacked awareness and training on critical heat illness guidance, and risk assessment staff were untrained. A disjointed reporting system also impedes accurate heat illness data.
Response (Ministry of Defence): An upgrade to the tracker system is scheduled to take place before the end of the calendar year to address data volume issues. The policy for endurance exercises will be …
Overdue
David Wellington
Concerns: The service road used by both vehicles and pedestrians lacked a designated pathway for pedestrians, road markings designating a pedestrian route, and any clear separation of pedestrian routes; a number of obstructions were present in the service road, presenting a risk to pedestrians and emergency services.
Response (Walsall MBC): Walsall MBC acknowledges the concerns regarding pedestrian safety near a parade of shops, but cites legal and practical difficulties in implementing the suggested measures, including land ownership and the need …
Responded
Committee Recommendations (2)
#59 —
Recommendation: Previous exercises to test the national response capability, namely Exercises Cygnus and Winter Willow, did not squarely address a disease with the characteristics of covid-19. Nevertheless, some useful lessons were learned and applied, such as the drafting of legislative measures …
Gov response: The government partially accepts this recommendation. As highlighted by the Committees, previous exercises such as Cygnus and Winter Willow did not squarely address a disease with the characteristics of COVID-19. The government acknowledges that lessons …
Under Consideration
#59 —
Recommendation: Previous exercises to test the national response capability, namely Exercises Cygnus and Winter Willow, did not squarely address a disease with the characteristics of covid-19. Nevertheless, some useful lessons were learned and applied, such as the drafting of legislative measures …
Gov response: The government partially accepts this recommendation. The government agrees that there is positive learning and engagement to be had with other countries, practitioners, and disciplines, as it has done since the start of the pandemic …
Under Consideration