Health Emergency Planning: A Handbook for Practitioners (2nd Edition)

Edited by Sarah Stuart-Black, Jim Stuart-Black and Eve Coles

Author:

Health Protection Agency

Publisher:

TSO (The Stationery Office)

Price: £30.00

'Health Emergency Planning: A Handbook for Practitioners' is designed as a resource tool that can be used by emergency planners in a health context to provide practical advice, ideas, resources and references to facilitate emergency planning. The Handbook provides some of the fundamental concepts of emergency planning whilst also encouraging readers to strive for best practice.

Topics covered in this 2nd Edition include:

• an introduction to major incidents and disasters

• a review of the legal framework

• crisis management and organisational learning issues

• hazard identification and risk management

• emergency plans, including the types of plans, their structures and the planning process

• plan evaluation and audit

• planning exercises and training

• multi-agency responses

• roles and responsibilities of the Department of Health, the Health Protection Agency and the NHS, as well as relations between local and national healthcare bodies

• chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) incidents, including decontamination, sheltering and evacuation issues

• public relations and media management

• organisational debriefing and reporting following major incidents.

This publication provides a supporting resource to the publication 'The NHS Emergency Planning Guidance' (Department of Health, 2005), which is available to download here (opens new window).

Extent	170 pages	ISBN	9780117037687
Size	A4	Price	£30.00
Format	Paperback	Published	12 Aug 2008
Availability	Colour copy: 3 - 5 days	Delivery	Delivery options and charges