MAJOR INCIDENT TRAINING

Trusts

CWC Services offers training for major incident management following Major Emergency Plan development. This training is geared to the needs of the Trust/PCT is aimed at the staffs that have to fulfil roles within the plan.

As most staff at the Silver or Bronze level have little personal experience in managing a ward or department in a major emergency situation, this training will assist them in handling the inevitable problems they will face.

Training is based on the plan, but is focused on giving staff the confidence to exercise their innate skills while using the plan as an aide memoire, and as a mechanism to reduce the inevitable chaos the unexpected situation inevitably fosters. The training also covers the problem of managers having to undertake duties in a department or role they are unfamiliar with. This scenario is inevitable in some wards/department, as the “resident” manager may be away on other business or leave when the incident develops and the Tactical Co-ordination Team may have no choice but to put in a manager unfamiliar with that function, in the short term at least.

Training for Trust managers by CWC is based on the CWC developed Generic Acute Trust Major Emergency Plan.

PCT/SHA

CWC has developed a programme of training for PCT / SHA Directors in major incident management.
Used in London to train PCT / SHA Directors during spring 2003, the programme is pragmatic and based on long experience of major incident and emergency management. Available as a one to one, or group, programme, the PCT / SHA training programme will leave Directors much more confident of their abilities to manage the abnormal situation of a major incident.

PCT / SHA Directors in London have said they found the programme “very useful.”

Call for details of either of the above training programmes, availability and prices.