EPRR Planning

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William Wetherell

Dear Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation 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

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Dear Mr Whetherall,

 

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From: William Wetherell <[3][FOI #881233 email]>
Sent: 24 July 2022 21:15
To: info.gov <[4][email address]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - EPRR Planning

 

Dear Alder Hey Children&#39;s NHS Foundation 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

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William Wetherell

Dear Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust's handling of my FOI request 'EPRR Planning'. The Trust has not provided the information I requested within 20 working days.

Yours faithfully

William Wetherell

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Dear Mr Wetherell

 

We acknowledge your request for an internal review of your request.
However we are unclear as to which request this relates to.

 

Our records show that we responded to your internal review of ref
FOI202223/088. As noted in our response, should you be unhappy with the
outcome of the review you are entitled to complain to the Information
Commissioners Office, the details of which were included in our letter.

 

Subsequently we logged a new request for you following that internal
review (ref FOI202223/215) in order to address some outstanding questions
from request FOI202223/088. We received a further request from you logged
as FOI 202223/278. Both of these requests required clarification in order
for us to proceed and gather the relevant information. This was requested
by email.

 

In line with the legislation, the 20 day time frame for these requests
have been paused whilst awaiting your clarification. I can confirm that we
have now received the clarification and both requests will now be
progressed in line with this 20 working day time frame.

 

Should you still require an internal review to be conducted please can you
respond with confirmation of the request, which reference it relates to
and the exact nature of the complaint.

 

Yours Sincerely

 

Information Governance Team

 

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

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William Wetherell

Dear Information Governance Team

This request for an internal review refers to my request of 24th July 2022, EPRR Planning.

Yours faithfully

William Wetherell

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Dear Mr Wetherell,

 

Reviewing our records we can see that the request you submitted on this
date was incorrectly logged as a duplicate of your original request.

 

This is an oversight on our part and an unfortunate result of human error
in the administrative process. We offer our sincerest apologies in the
delay this has caused.

 

We formally acknowledge you request and will process it under the terms of
Freedom of Information Act 2000.

 

Your request will be dealt with in line with Trust policy and national
guidelines and a response will be sent to you in no more than 20 working
days.

 

Kind regards

 

 

Information Governance Team

 

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

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Dear Mr Wetherell,

 

Please find attached a response to your recent Freedom of Information
request.

 

Regards

 

Information Governance Team

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

Liverpool Heart & Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

0151 600 1845

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William Wetherell

Dear Information Governance Team

Thank you for this.

Yours faithfully

William Wetherell