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Mark Williams Assistant Director (Emergency & Contingency Planning)

Mark Williams Assistant Director (Emergency & Contingency Planning). Planning for Major Emergencies. Planning for Major Emergencies. Presentation Content: CCA 2004 Planning Requirements. LRF Current Planning Arrangements LRF New Planning Requirements LRF Planning Example – Pandemic Flu

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Mark Williams Assistant Director (Emergency & Contingency Planning)

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  1. Mark WilliamsAssistant Director(Emergency & Contingency Planning) Planning for Major Emergencies

  2. Planning for Major Emergencies Presentation Content: • CCA 2004 Planning Requirements. • LRF Current Planning Arrangements • LRF New Planning Requirements • LRF Planning Example – Pandemic Flu • Summary

  3. Civil Contingencies Act 2004Planning Requirements Category 1 Responders must: • Maintain plans for preventing an emergency. • Maintain plans for reducing, controlling or mitigating the effects of an emergency. • Maintain plans for taking other action in connection with the emergency.

  4. Civil Contingencies Act 2004Planning Requirements Plans must : • Include procedure for determining whether an emergency has occurred. • Make provision for: training of key staff exercising the plan reviewing the plan • Have regard to risk assessments.

  5. Civil Contingencies Act 2004Planning Requirements Types of Plan: • Generic • Site Specific Multi Agency Plans permitted and should involve: • Category 2 Responders • Organisations not subject to CCA e.g. Military • Have regard to voluntary organisations

  6. The Cycle of Emergency Planning 7 6 Validate in exercises – and in response Train Key Staff EMBED 8 5 Maintain, review and Consider revision Issue and disseminate …………………………………………. 1 4 Take direction from Risk Assessment Agree and Finalise CONSULT 3 2 Determine actions and responsibilities Set Objectives

  7. Gloucestershire Local Resilience Form (LRF)Contingency Planning Arrangements

  8. Command Structure • Civil Contingencies Secretariat – Cabinet Office • Regional Resilience Team (RRT) – Bristol • Local Resilience Forum (LRF) – Gloucestershire • LRF Planning Sub-Group

  9. LRF Planning Sub-Group Established January 2001 Multi-Agency Plans completed: • Major Incident Procedures Manual (MIP) • CBRN • Media • Search and Rescue • COMAH/REPPIR

  10. LRF Planning Sub-Group New Planning Requirements: • Risk Assessment • Fuel • Central Government Capabilities Programme

  11. The Capabilities Programme • CBRN • Mass Casualties • Mass Fatalities • Mass Evacuation • Site Clearance • Warning and Informing the Public • Flooding (recent addition) • Infectious Diseases – Animal/Plant • Infectious Diseases – Human (Pandemic Flu)

  12. Avian Flu

  13. Pandemic Flu

  14. Avian Flu Avian Flu

  15. Pandemic Flu Human Flu Avian Flu Pandemic Flu

  16. Pandemic Flu

  17. Pandemic Flu • 1918 – ‘Spanish Flu’, UK Deaths: 250,000 • 1957 – ‘Asian Flu’, UK Deaths: 33,000 • 1968 – ‘Hong Kong’, Deaths in England & Wales: 30,000

  18. LRF Response • Identify an LRF Pandemic Flu Lead • Establishing an LRF Pandemic Flu Focus Group from the LRF Health Group • Identify Co-ordinators from each Agency

  19. LRF LRF HEALTH GROUP LRF PANDEMIC FLU FOCUS GROUP (Chair – Countywide Pandemic Flu Co-ordinator, DPH C&T PCT) HPA/CCDC FLU CONTINGENCY PLANNING FLU CO-ORDINATING GROUP FLU CO-ORDINATING GROUP FLU CO-ORDINATING GROUP EDUCATION SOCIAL SERVICES OPs & SUPPORT SERVICES COMMUNITY HOSPITALS NURSING STAFF COMMUNITY PHARMACISTS GP’s POLICE LOCAL AUTHORITY (EMS) 3 PCT CO-ORDINATORS HOSPITALS FOUNDATION TRUST AMBULANCE TRUST PARTNERSHIP TRUST 3 PCT CO-ORDINATING COMMITTEES

  20. Business Continuity • Reduction of over 30/35% Staff • Disruption to the supply chain • Loss of services

  21. Civil Contingencies Act 2004Planning Requirements SUMMARY • CCA/Capabilities Programme/Risk Assessment will generate large multi-agency planning workload. • Gloucestershire LRF well placed to meet these new challenges.

  22. Integration

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