Emergency Response in UK

This presentation provides an overview of emergency response in the UK, including the principles that apply, the need for post-incident review, real-world incidents, and how public services respond. It emphasizes the importance of effective emergency services in managing accidents and providing support to victims.

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Table of Content
 Introduction
 Principles that apply for Emergency Response in UK
 Need of post incident review
 Some real world incidents national and international
 Type of incident and how public service respond
 Conclusion
 References

Introduction
Emergency services have been defined as public organisation whose specific job is to take a
quick and certain action for dealing with emergency that may cause due to number of events
like fire, natural disaster, chemical spills, pandemics or any accidents. Emergency services
may include police, fire brigade or ambulance services. Proper public service and response are
required in improving the physical and mental status of such crisis victims.

Principles that apply for Emergency
Response in UK
Various principle have been employed which can be extensively used for Emergency
Response in UK and also involve in recovering stages. It has been observed that such
emergency principles should be very flexible so that it can be easily tailored at the time of
specific situation. Some of these principle of effective recovery and response are discussed
below.
 Anticipation
 Preparedness
 Subsidiarity
 Direction
 Information

Need of post incident review
The post incident review is the process of monitoring incident management recovery and
response for critical and major priority accidents. Once the incident have been completely
resolved the meetings regarding post incident reviews are initiated. The output of such
meetings are reported and concluded in final detailing about how could have been the
incidents may be handled in more better way. Due to this process, data collected from
associated life cycle of incident and victims are saved for later and then reviewed.

Some real world incidents national and
international
During England flood which was held between November 2019 and February 2020 and caused
a significant number of deaths. The main cause of such disaster was found to be intense cold
front which was constantly moving across the area. Another cause of such flood was high
rainfall which resulted in accumulation of large amount of water and ultimately resulted into
flooding. At 2018 UK faced a drastic drought and heatwave which was one of the hottest
summer in records.

Type of incident and how public service
respond
At 2018, Britain and Ireland heat wave was considered as the period which considered as one
of hottest weather which was record breaking. It basically caused due to drought, health
waves, wildfires, crop failures. The long period of dryness adversely affected the vegetation
which resulted into making the economy disturbed.

Conclusion
From the above presentation it can be concluded that, emergency services are very essential
for managing the accident in most organised way so that the victims can receive good quality
of support and care and they can continue living their life. Different legislation are required for
responding and receiving the accidental issues by police, NHS, military and fire.

References
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