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:
- Emergency Planning Officers Course
- Emergency Planning Officer's Training – Fast track
- Diploma in Health Emergency Planning (DipHEP)
- Emergo-Application Course
- Loggists' Training
- Clinical Management of CBRN Injuries Modules:
- A&E Resource Management
- Biological Part I: Pneumonic Plague
- Biological Part II: Pox viruses
- Burns, Blasts & Major Incidents
- Chemical: Chlorine, Phosgene, Cyanide
- Radiological
- Pandemic Flu Module
- Cold Weather Module (under development)
Training Resources:
During 2005 the Department of Health made available new 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. These are available here:
Training materials for staff in NHS Accident and Emergency departments (Management of potentially radioactively contaminated patients)
Events
Health Emergency Planning Fast-track Course [for Local Authorities, NHS Ambulance Trusts, Private Health Care Providers and Private Sector organisations]