MAJOR INCIDENT PLAN - NHS Cumbria

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SECTION 3 CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITIES6 THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE- ON BEHALF OF NHS NORTH WEST6.1 NHS Cumbria (Teaching Primary Care Trust), in agreement with NHS North West, hasspecific lead responsibilities for the NHS in leading emergency planning and response acrossthe county to coordinate the delivery of health services. As Lead the Chief Executive nowacts on behalf of NHS North West to:• Provide senior representation on the Local Resilience Forum and appropriatesubgroups, who will brief the NHS North West and the NHS Cumbria on issues arising.• Ensure that Chief Executive or Executive Director will be available to represent the NHSat a Strategic Co-ordinating Group (Gold Command) to support the combined responseof all emergency services and other agencies. This includes provision for a 24 houremergency response• Coordinate and monitor the local NHS response in Cumbria, including the response ofCumbria NHS Trusts, the Ambulance Service, Out of Hours, the National Blood Serviceand NHS Direct• Lead the local NHS response to support NHS North West in regional or nationalincidents, to include appropriate NHS attendance at local, regional and national forums• Advise (and provide strategic direction to) all local NHS organisations in the county tomake major decisions including implementing their major incident plans, evacuating,closing, and standing down major incident plans. Subject to the immediacy of thedecisions, this will normally be in consultation with NHS NW.• To assess the situation and identify emerging issues,• Provide resources to support the response to the incident, using mutual aid either locallyor regionally• Coordinate the NHS major incident planning process across the county, includinggeneric planning and planning for specific scenarios such as pandemic influenza.• Ensure robust mutual aid arrangements exist across counties within the NHS and withother partner agencies, including business continuity management• To convene a Science and Technical Advice Cell (in consultation with the Police, toensure that such a team is convened).• Manage the process of obtaining appropriate security clearance for people on thoserotas.• Provide or coordinate training for Gold on Call staff on the rota.• Ensure that it’s Incident Room has sufficient capacity to discharge the Lead PCT role.• Assist NHS NW in its performance management role, including advising NHS NorthWest of any NHS organisations in Cumbria that need support.• Coordinate rota arrangements to ensure that there is Communications advice availableto the Lead PCT (or its representatives) in the event of a major incident.NHS CUMBRIAMAJOR INCIDENT PLAN – FRAMEWORK FOR RESPONDING TO A MAJOR INCIDENTPAGE 18 OF 46Version 3 (Dec 2008)
• Run a programme of training and testing major incident plans.• Attend any national or regional events where representation is required from Trusts inthe county, including any meetings of Lead PCTs convened by NHS North West.• Work closely with the Health Protection Agency which has considerable expertise in allaspects of emergency planning.• Facilitate a regular forum for NHS organisations in Cumbria to discuss and plan formajor incidents• Liaise with NHS North West for wider NHS assistance during major incidents- NHS CUMBRIA TEACHING PRIMARY CARE TRUST6.2 The Chief Executive is responsible for ensuring that NHS Cumbria Teaching PrimaryCare Trust:a. Is able to comply with its duties as a Category 1 Responder under the Act (2204)b. Has a Major Incident Plan in place which is built on the principles of:- Risk assessment;- Cooperation with partners;- Emergency planning- Communicating with the public, and- Information sharingc. Has a Major Incident Plan that meets the criteria set out in the NHS EmergencyPlanning Guidance (2005), and;d. Ensures the NHS Cumbria meets the Public Health Core Standard C24 withinStandards for Better Health6.3 The Chief Executive is assisted in discharging these duties by:a. Associate Director of Health Protectionb. Emergency Planning Manager6.4 In addition NHS Cumbria has established an Emergency Planning Management Groupand Business Continuity Group, both reporting to Standards and Quality Committee.NHS CUMBRIAMAJOR INCIDENT PLAN – FRAMEWORK FOR RESPONDING TO A MAJOR INCIDENTPAGE 19 OF 46Version 3 (Dec 2008)
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