Mark Williams Assistant Director (Emergency & Contingency Planning) Planning for Major Emergencies

Presentation Content: CCA 2004 Planning Requirements. LRF Current Planning Arrangements LRF New Planning Requirements LRF Planning Example – Pandemic Flu Summary

Civil Contingencies Act 2004 Planning 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.

Civil Contingencies Act 2004 Planning 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.

Civil Contingencies Act 2004 Planning 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

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

Gloucestershire Local Resilience Form (LRF) Contingency Planning Arrangements

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

Established January 2001 Multi-Agency Plans completed: Major Incident Procedures Manual (MIP) CBRN Media Search and Rescue COMAH/REPPIR

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

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)

Avian Flu

Pandemic Flu

Avian Flu

Pandemic Flu Human Flu

Pandemic Flu

1918 – ‘Spanish Flu’, UK Deaths: 250, – ‘Asian Flu’, UK Deaths: 33, – ‘Hong Kong’, Deaths in England & Wales: 30,000

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

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

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

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

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