Conference Day One: 8th July 2009

09:00 Chairman’s Welcome And Scenario Set Up

Chris Abbott
Chairman of the Emergency Management Planning Society
CBRN Professional Working Group

09:30 Ensuring UK Resilience Through Effective Fire And Rescue Service And Local Government Resolve

• Outlining fire brigade and local government responsibilities in maintaining UK CBRN Resilience
• Issues of procurement, standardisation and policy: How these can ease interoperability between CBRN stakeholders

Sir Ken Knight
Chief Fire and Rescue Adviser
Department of Communities and Local Government

EMERGENCY FIRST RESPONDERS AND THE FIRST 12 HOURS

10:10 Delivery Of The Police National CBRN Operational Response Plan

• The police CBRN Centre role
• CBRN Response – capabilities and readiness
• Moving on from investment in capability to achieve true readiness

Chief Superintendent John Buttress
Police National CBRN Centre

11:30 Hazardous Area Response Teams (HART) Teams

• Model, training and kit: Ongoing review process to decontamination
• Operational delivery of CBRN coordinated emergency health response in the Midlands, including examples
• Ongoing challenges and next steps

Steve Wheaton
CBRN Coordinator
West Midlands Ambulance Service

12:10 FIRST STEPS - Scenario Brief

13:40 Scenario Discussion Within The Groups

13:50 Report Back Findings To The Group

14:00 Sustaining Healthcare Provision Through The Health Protection Agency

• Policy and practice developments to enhance current capability
• Post incident and operational sustainability

Dr Mike Barker
Medical Intelligence Consultant, Emergency Response Department
Health Protection Agency

14:30 Assessing A Hospital Response To Dealing With A CBRN Incident: Case Study Of Coordination Between Hospitals Within The West Midlands Conurbation

• What guidelines and agreements are in place
• Practicalities: How would the hospitals address the treatment of casualties in distant facilities?
• Challenges and opportunities

Stewart Mason Emergency Planning and Resilience Manager Birmingham Children’s Hospital

James Bister Emergency Planning Officer University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire

15.30 Developing Resilience Across The Healthcare System

• Challenges facing the NHS
• Resilience and the changing face of Healthcare
• Building the Department of Health’s response through collective resilience

Phill Storr
Head NHS Resilience Project
Department of Health

16:00 STEP 2: WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS? - Scenario Briefing

16:15 Group Discussions

16:45 Report Back Findings

CBRN INCIDENT RECOVERY MANAGEMENT CASE STUDY

17:00 Coordinating The Clear Up In An Urban Area After A CBRN Incident

• Westminster County Council response to the po-210 incident
• Coordination between stakeholders: Main challenges and strengths
• Lessons identified, but lessons learned?

James Armitage
Assistant Operations Manager
Westminster City Council

18:30 Close Of Day One

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