EPRR Planning

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William Wetherell

Dear United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust,

I am conducting a study of the emergency preparedness of NHS Acute Trusts in England. I am using the emergency and disaster management module of the Hospital Safety Index checklist of the World Health Organisation. The study is part of an MSc in Crisis & Disaster Management at the University of Portsmouth.

Under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am writing to request the following information. This information relates to the NHS England Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response Framework in general and section 10, “Cycle of preparedness”, subsection 2, “Planning”, and subsection 4, "Exercising", and section 12, Incident Response", in particular.

Please note that the much of the information requested is only records of the existence of current plans, reviews, updates, training and tests and not the contents of the plans, reviews, updates, training and tests themselves.

For clarity, to minimise the cost of my request and to prevent the disclosure of any sensitive information, I have enumerated the information I am requesting and specified how it could be provided.

If you do not hold some of this information then I ask you to confirm explicitly that you do not hold it.

Given the potentially sensitive nature of this information, I ask you to redact any exempt information instead of refusing disclosure. This would be in accordance with guidance on best practice from the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Hospital emergency and disaster response and recovery planning

Hospital emergency or disaster response plan

1. How the plan(s) is to be accessed in an emergency. (Can be answered with locations in general terms such as wards, departments, laboratories etc but I am not requesting any information that would prejudice security or the prevention of crime.)
2. The date(s) of the most recent review(s) or update(s) of the plan(s). (Can be answered with a date or dates.)

Hospital hazard-specific subplans (for example CBRN)

3. Any record of the existence of current documented hazard-specific response subplans for the most likely external and internal emergency scenarios. (Can be answered yes / no.)
4. How the subplans are to be accessed in an emergency. (Can be answered with locations in general terms such as wards, departments, laboratories etc but I am not requesting any information that would prejudice security or the prevention of crime.)
5. The date(s) of the most recent review(s) or update(s) of the plan(s). (Can be answered with a date or dates.)

Procedures to activate and deactivate plans

6. Any record of the existence of current procedures for when, how and by whom emergency response plan(s) are activated and de-activated. (Can be answered yes / no.)
7. Any record that staff who can activate or de-activate the emergency response plan(s) have been trained in this. (Can be answered yes / no.)
8. The date(s) of the most recent test(s) of the above procedures. (Can be answered with a date or dates.)

Hospital emergency and disaster response plan exercises, evaluation and corrective actions

9. The date(s) of the most recent test(s) of the emergency response plan(s), including date(s) of test(s). (Can be answered with a date or dates.)
10. Any record that the emergency response plan(s) have been updated because of the results of tests. (Can be answered yes / no.)

Hospital recovery plan

11. Any record of the existence of a current documented all-hazards hospital recovery plan or plans that define(s) actions to be taken to recover normal functions of the hospital after an emergency or disaster. (Can be answered yes / no.)
12. Any record of how the plan(s) is to be accessed.
13. The date of the most recent review(s) or update(s) of the plan(s). (Can be answered with a date or dates.)

Thank you for your assistance with this study.

Yours faithfully

William Wetherell

Freedom Of Information (ULHT), United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

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Freedom Of Information (ULHT), United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

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Dear Mr Wetherell

 

Please see attached the response to your Freedom of Information Request.

 

Regards

 

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

Trust Headquarters

Lincoln County Hospital, Greetwell Road, Lincoln, LN2 5QY

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Thank you for your continued hard work and commitment #WeAreLincsNHS

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Dear Freedom Of Information (ULHT)

Thank you for this.

Yours faithfully

William Wetherell