Incident Syndromic Surveillance
In addition to undertaking routine syndromic surveillance the Real-time Syndromic Surveillance Team (ReSST) also provide support for local or national health protection incidents. In general these are incidents that are considered to have a potential health impact on the local community e.g. flooding, industrial explosions/fires, chemical contamination, heat waves.
In response to these incidents the ReSST will communicate with the incident response team to understand the nature of the incident, and if required will then monitor relevant syndromic indicators to assess whether the incident has had an impact on public health. ‘Bespoke’ surveillance reports are provided to the incident team where necessary.
The information provided to the incident team aids in the decision making around the scale of response required for each incident. In many such incidents, the ReSST are able to provide reassurance of a lack of impact on public health.
• Buncefield Oil Depot explosion and fire (December 2005)
• England flooding (Summer 2007)
• Icelandic volcano – UK volcanic ash cloud (April 2010)
• Heat wave response (annual, June – Sept)
• Wem Tyre Fire (September 2009)
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