Excluding non-specialist personnel from exercises

North West Ambulance Service should ensure that non-specialist ambulance personnel are involved in multi-agency exercising.

The Government should conduct annual cross public sector-private sector exercises to specifically test the response to events in which multiple economic security risks manifest simultaneously. One example would be the scenario set out in the Strategic Defence Review: efforts to manipulate information, attacks on critical infrastructure, and wider attempts to disrupt the UK economy. These exercises could either...

We have heard through this inquiry that there is currently no shared space for industry and Government to simulate their response to combined attacks across multiple sectors, or to plan public and private investments that improve long-term resilience. This is dangerous. The National Exercising Programme, if implemented correctly over the course of this Parliament, is a step in...

The coroner identified a non-functional tracker system for slow-moving soldiers, of which senior commanders were unaware, and insufficient awareness and training regarding heat illness guidance (JSP539).

We welcome the Government’s efforts to reinvigorate the National Exercise Programme. The majority of UK CNI is run by private operators, however, so it is vital that these companies are invited to participate in the Programme. The exercises should also consider broader impacts, beyond a single infrastructure sector. As part of the National Exercise Programme, the Government should...

The Department of Health and Social Care, the NHS, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit, ambulance service trusts, Air Ambulances UK, Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters and JESIP should consider whether air ambulances should be integrated into the emergency response to Major Incidents, including terrorist attacks, and, if so, how that is to be achieved.

The Department of Health and Social Care, the NHS, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit, ambulance service trusts, Air Ambulances UK, Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters and JESIP should consider what staff training and resources would be required to integrate air ambulance organisations into the emergency response to Major Incidents, including terrorist attacks.

There shall be a joint exercise with the emergency services at least twice each year. London Underground must involve as many different fire stations, staff and members of the public as possible.

In the exercise of command and control at accident sites BR and the emergency services shall maintain their policy of joint planning supported by table-top exercises.

The coroner noted a lack of designated pedestrian pathways, road markings, and warning signs for pedestrians on a service road shared with vehicles. Obstructions in the road reduced visibility and impeded emergency service access, compounded by the absence of a speed limit.

All ambulance service trusts should undertake training and exercising with neighbouring ambulance service trusts to ensure that cross-border support is efficient and effective.

The Home Office should consider empowering the leadership of local resilience forums to compel the attendance of a senior representative of its Category 1 and Category 2 responders at all local resilience forum meetings. Inspections by His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services should include an analysis of a service's engagement with its local resilience...

Each emergency service should ensure that it is represented at a senior level at every meeting of a local resilience forum.

The Government should pave the way in innovating how organisations collaborate and drive change. It should ensure that the delivery expertise and market understanding in Homes England and the Planning Inspectorate is accessible to all departments making policy that will affect development. As far as possible, practitioners should be included in policy development. When introducing new regulations or...

f update their approach to conducting exercises to test their contingency plans so that they fully examine all aspects of the plans, including resources available ?on the ground?, and fully capture and implement lessons learned;

Previous exercises to test the national response capability, namely Exercises Cygnus and Winter Willow, did not squarely address a disease with the characteristics of covid-19. Nevertheless, some useful lessons were learned and applied, such as the drafting of legislative measures that might be needed. 93 Healthcare Infection Society (CLL0071) 94 Q872; Paragraphs 318–19 95 Healthcare Infection Society (CLL0071)...

Previous exercises to test the national response capability, namely Exercises Cygnus and Winter Willow, did not squarely address a disease with the characteristics of covid-19. Nevertheless, some useful lessons were learned and applied, such as the drafting of legislative measures that might be needed. 93 Healthcare Infection Society (CLL0071) 94 Q872; Paragraphs 318–19 95 Healthcare Infection Society (CLL0071)...

Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters should review the evidence heard during the Inquiry, including that heard in restricted sessions, to consider the advantages and disadvantages of embedding doctors with some police firearms teams, and how, if that is advantageous, it could be achieved.