Excluding non-specialist personnel from exercises
Failure to include non-specialist ambulance personnel in multi-agency emergency exercising, compromising coordinated response.
Source spread
Where this theme appears
This theme appears across 6 independent accountability sources, so the source mix matters as much as the headline total.
9 inquiry recs
2 PFD reports
6 committee recs
1 NAO rec
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Inquiry recommendations(9)
MAI-142 — Compel LRF attendance from Category 1 and 2 responders
Recommendation: 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 …
Gov response: Accepted in full
Accepted
MAI-120 — Consider air ambulance integration into response
Recommendation: 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 …
Gov response: Accepted in full
Accepted
MAI-119 — Integrate air ambulances into Major Incident response
Recommendation: 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 …
Gov response: Accepted in full
Accepted
MAI-70 — Include non-specialist ambulance personnel in exercising
Recommendation: North West Ambulance Service should ensure that non-specialist ambulance personnel are involved in multi-agency exercising.
Gov response: Accepted in full
Accepted
MAI-28 — Senior emergency service representation at LRFs
Recommendation: Each emergency service should ensure that it is represented at a senior level at every meeting of a local resilience forum.
Gov response: Accepted in full
Accepted
MAI-25 — Review embedding doctors with firearms teams
Recommendation: 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 …
Gov response: Accepted in full
Accepted
MAI-3 — Cross-border ambulance training and exercising
Recommendation: All ambulance service trusts should undertake training and exercising with neighbouring ambulance service trusts to ensure that cross-border support is efficient and effective.
Gov response: Accepted in full
Accepted
FENN-88 — Conduct biannual joint emergency services exercises involving staff and public
Recommendation: 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.
Unknown
HIDD-76 — Require BR and emergency services to maintain joint planning with table-top exercises
Recommendation: 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.
Unknown
Prevention of Future Deaths reports(2)
Edward Maher, James Dunsby and Craig Roberts
Concerns: 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).
Response (Ministry of Defence): • The Ministry of Defence implemented mitigation measures for the tracker system, including visual monitoring, alerts, and quick reaction forces, and plans an upgrade. • Training on JSP 539 heat … (AI summary)
Overdue
David Wellington
Concerns: 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.
Response (Walsall MBC): • The council has written to lessees reminding them that skips are not permitted on the service road without written consent, which would require non-obstructive placement. • The council is … (AI summary)
Responded
Select committee recommendations(6)
#21 —
Recommendation: 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 …
#20 —
Recommendation: 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 …
#28 —
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#6 —
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#59 —
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#59 —
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
Independent reviews(2)
Kerslake Review — Rec 31
Operators of all key/iconic sites should be actively encouraged and enabled to participate in Local Resilience Forum planning, training and exercising
Policing & Security
Accepted
Kerslake Review — Rec 23
A national review of the possibility of accrediting charities to deliver effective services in the response to an emergency should be undertaken, avoiding the accreditation process becoming too burdensome for the charities concerned but including a requirement to plan with Local Resilience Fora ahead of emergencies
Policing & Security
Accepted