MAJOR INCIDENT PLAN - NHS Cumbria

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• Liaise with the Food Standards Agency and the Environment Agency on all relevantaspects of the release of any contaminants.• Provide information to NHS Direct, General Practitioners and Hospital Trusts to assistthem in dealing with enquiries.• Monitor the health of members of the public, implement measures and issue advice toensure the general public are kept informed and as safe as practicable.• Monitor the medium and long term health of those affected communities as part of therecovery process.• Provide medical assistance and follow up advice at Reception Centres and holdingareas to treat, monitor and reassure casualties.• If requested, provide a representative on the Media Briefing Team.• Deal with enquiries from the media in accordance with the policy and arrangementsdescribed in both this and Cumbria County Council General Emergency Plan.• Cumbria and Lancashire Health Protection Unit will support the response of the NHSCumbriaNORTH WEST AMBULANCE SERVICE8.5 North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust has a primary responsibility for the alertingand mobilisation of Health Service resources to deal with an emergency. The AmbulanceService provides transport and paramedical care for casualties, initiates arrangements fortheir reception at designated hospitals and, if necessary, arranges for the provision andconveyance of a medical team and its equipment to the scene of an incident.Ambulance services for Cumbria are provided under the Cumbria and Lancashire area, withthe main office for Cumbria currently based at Salkeld Hall, Infirmary Street, Carlisle.NHS NORTH WEST (STRATEGIC HEALTH AUTHORITY)8.6 The North West Strategic Health Authority has a regional focus in respect ofemergency planning and response. At a planning level, the NHS North West will participatein the regional planning (e.g. the Regional Resilience Forum) and the Local Resilience Forum,ensure that all NHS organisations are aware of national and regional requirements andguidance, and performance manage emergency planning.8.7 In responding to an incident, the role of the NHS North West (SHA) will be:• To participate in the Regional Civil Contingencies Committee (Regional “Gold”) and in aRegional Science and Advice Cell (possibly convening the latter).• To coordinate mutual aid across county boundaries, including across regionalboundaries.• To monitor the resilience of the NHS within the region and advise the Dept of Health.• To ensure that mechanisms are implemented at County level to coordinate andcommand the NHS within those boundaries. To participate in those arrangementssubject to the nature and magnitude of the incident.• To brief the national and regional media, ensuring that briefings are consistent withthose coming from national and local levels.NHS CUMBRIAMAJOR INCIDENT PLAN – FRAMEWORK FOR RESPONDING TO A MAJOR INCIDENTPAGE 22 OF 46Version 3 (Dec 2008)
8.8 The Primary Care Trusts have agreed to take responsibility for representing the NHSat the 5 individual county level Strategic Coordination Groups and respective Science andTechnical Advice Cells. This role will include co-ordinating and commanding the NHS withinthe county, and the representatives will need designated authority to speak on behalf of allNHS Trusts and the NHS North West (SHA) at the Strategic Coordination Group meetings.NHS Cumbria Teaching Primary Care Trust is a Lead PCT, and will represent all NHSorganisations in Cumbria at Strategic Coordination Group; both the Ambulance Service andHealth Protection Agency attend in their own right.NHS DIRECT8.9 NHS Direct provides a 24 hour telephone health advice service for members of thepublic. Key activities undertaken by NHS Direct may include:• Providing the public with up to date information on the incident• Answering questions and concerns from the public in relation to the incident• offering reassurance and general health advice• clinical assessment/triage• signposting callers to specialised/dedicated help lines set up by NHS Cumbria for at riskpublic8.10 In the event of an emergency, the Communication Lead, in collaboration with the MajorIncident Manager and/ or Science and Technical Advice Cell will liaise with the Central CallCentre at Sefton House, to ensure that NHS Direct is able to give appropriate health advice tothe public. A useful checklist for NHS Direct can be found in Part B Section 4NHS CUMBRIAMAJOR INCIDENT PLAN – FRAMEWORK FOR RESPONDING TO A MAJOR INCIDENTPAGE 23 OF 46Version 3 (Dec 2008)
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