Outdated Emergency Preparedness Guidance
Outdated, fragmented, and overly long emergency preparedness guidance, lacking emphasis on recovery and identification of vulnerable people.
14 items
1 source
5 inquiries
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Inquiry recommendation
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P2-44 - Consolidate and update emergency preparedness guidance
The current guidance on preparing for emergencies is contained in several documents, all of which are unduly long and in some respects out of date. We recommend that the guidance be revised, reduced in length and consolidated in one document which lays greater emphasis on the need for those leading the response to consider the requirements for recovery,...
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terms: emergency, guidance, preparednes
Inquiry recommendation
65match
COVID-M5.5 - Emergency Healthcare Equipment Plan
UK regulators, including the Health and Safety Executive, the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland, the Office for Product Safety and Standards and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, should establish an emergency healthcare equipment cross-regulator plan for future pandemics. The plan must include arrangements for: coordination of written guidance from regulators to ensure that it...
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terms: emergency, guidance
Inquiry recommendation
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MAI-99 - Review licensing guidance on event healthcare
The Ministry of Housing Commuities and Local Government should review the guidance given to all licensing authorities on the decisions they make in relation to venues that hold events, and on what level of event healthcare services may be required at the events likely to be held at those venues. The guidance should indicate appropriate licence conditions to...
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terms: guidance
Inquiry recommendation
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MAI-46 - Guidance on Major Incident plan review frequency
His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services, the College of Policing and the Home Office should issue guidance for all police services on how often operational plans for responding to a Major Incident, including a terrorist incident, should be reviewed, how that review should be conducted, and what rank and experience the officers involved should...
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terms: guidance
Inquiry recommendation
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COVID-M5.2 - Pandemic Exercises to Include Emergency Procurement
The UK government and devolved administrations should evaluate the readiness of the structures, systems and processes for the emergency procurement and distribution of healthcare equipment as part of UK-wide pandemic response exercises.
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terms: emergency
Inquiry recommendation
53match
MAI-123 - GM Resilience Forum tri-service plan reviews
The Greater Manchester Resilience Forum should oversee, at least every six months, a regular tri-service review of the Major Incident plans used by Greater Manchester Police, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service and North West Ambulance Service. The purpose of that review should be to ensure that there is a common understanding by each emergency service of the...
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terms: emergency
Inquiry recommendation
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COVID-M5.7 - Trade and Industry in the Civil Emergency Strategy
The UK-wide whole-system civil emergency strategy, which the Inquiry has recommended should be developed by the UK government and devolved administrations (see the Inquiry’s Module 1 Report, Recommendation 4), should include specific objectives for international trade and domestic industry during a pandemic. These must include: the establishment of trading alliances in advance of the next pandemic, to diversify...
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terms: emergency
Inquiry recommendation
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COVID-M5.4 - Emergency Healthcare Equipment Regulations
The UK government and devolved administrations should publish simplified regulations for emergency healthcare equipment that are aligned with and cover the range and severity of pandemic risks identified in the National Security Risk Assessment. The simplified regulations should: establish the minimum technical specifications of healthcare equipment specifically for use in a pandemic, including international standards that are recognised...
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terms: emergency
Inquiry recommendation
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COVID-M2.10 - Pandemic Decision-Making Framework
The UK government and devolved administrations should set out in future pandemic preparedness strategies how decision-making will work in a future pandemic. This should include provision for COBR to be used as the initial response structure and set out how the UK government and devolved administrations will transition from managing a pandemic through COBR to managing it through...
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terms: emergency, preparednes
Inquiry recommendation
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COVID-M5.1 - Pandemic Stockpile Composition and Inspection
The UK government and devolved administrations should ensure, within 12 months of the publication of this Report, that the pandemic stockpiles: retain stock that is better aligned with the range and severity of pandemic risks identified in the National Security Risk Assessment; maintain a minimum three-month supply of PPE for the entire health and social care system in...
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terms: preparednes
Inquiry recommendation
48match
HIDD-79 - Department of Health to review Circular 71, clarifying Major Incident declaration terms
The Department of Health shall review DHSS Circular 71 in consultation with emergency and medical services to reflect all lessons learned but in particular in relation to procedures for declaring a Major Incident. The Department of Health shall specifically require that the terms used to warn hospitals of a possible Major Incident, and subsequently to declare an actual...
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terms: emergency
Inquiry recommendation
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COVID-M5.6 - Blueprints for Critical Care Medical Technology
The UK government and devolved administrations should jointly commission a group of experts to develop blueprints for rapidly scalable critical care medical technology, aligned with the range and severity of pandemic risks identified in the National Security Risk Assessment, within 12 months of the publication of this Report. The blueprints should be issued in accordance with the emergency...
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terms: emergency
Inquiry recommendation
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CR5 - Mass Persons in Water Triage procedure
Those involved in maritime search and rescue should adopt formally the Mass Persons in the Water Triage procedure to govern the operational response to a maritime search and rescue incident when the number of people requiring rescue exceeds the capability of the search and rescue units on scene.
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Inquiry recommendation
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CR16 - Mass rescue operation plan
HM Coastguard should develop a mass rescue operation plan that includes command and control, co-ordination, external stakeholders, medical and law enforcement roles, and public and external affairs.
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