Emergency Preparedness and Response Training
The training department works with partner organisations to deliver specialist courses for health care providers and managers. These courses, funded by the Department of Health, help to enable delegates to respond effectively to major incidents of all kinds.
Courses
Information on Emergency Preparedness and Response training courses can be found within the Training and Events area.
Training Pack
These courses aim to improve the health community's ability to respond effectively to major incidents and emergencies such as the accidental or deliberate release of chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear material.
Training Resources
The Department of Health have made available monitoring equipment to be used to screen casualties for radioactive contaminants.
Ambulance services, accident and emergency departments and NHS walk-in centres are receiving combined dose-rate / contamination monitors (RAM GENE-1 monitors).
The HPA has produced resources to train staff to use these devices:
Training materials for staff in NHS Accident and Emergency departments (Management of potentially radioactively contaminated patients)
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