Unit 5: Integrated Emergency Management
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Unit 5: Integrated EmergencyManagement
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1ACTIVITY ......................................................................................................................................1P 1 Legislation and guidance that undertake by public services must deal with emergencyincidents .....................................................................................................................................1P 2 Define statutory responsibility in planning and responding to emergency incidents ..........3P 3 Role of public services in emergency planning...................................................................4P4. Identification of main considerations which public services should address while makingplan for emergency situations.....................................................................................................7CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
INTRODUCTIONIntegrated emergency management system means to all hazard concept to thecoordination, direction and control of disasters self-directed of their kind, origin, size as well ascomplexness (Booker and Benham, 2018). This study is based on National Health Service(NHS). It is the publicly funded and the biggest national healthcare system in the world. Reportwill discuss legislation and guidance that undertake by public services must deal with emergencyincidents. It will define statutory responsibility in planning and responding to emergencyincidents. Furthermore, study will explain the role of public services in emergency planning. Itwill identify the main consideration must address by public service for planning emergencysituation. ACTIVITY P 1 Legislation and guidance that undertake by public services must deal with emergencyincidents An emergency is situation which poses an direct risk to well-being, life and surroundings.Most of crisis needs imperative intercession to prevent bettering of the condition, mitigation cannot be possible and agencies can only be capable to offer moderating care for the aftermath(Dorasamy, Raman and Kaliannan, 2017). In this context, it is necessary to manage theemergencies incidents for which various legislations and guidance can be made which undertakeby public services organization like National Health Service. Legislation and guidance are suchas follow: Civil Contingencies Act 2004: It is the act of Parliament of UK which creates provision about civil contingencies. Also,it replaces former civil Defence and Emergence power legislation of the 20th century. The act isclassified into three parts which are obligation of certain companies to make for different kindsof emergencies, extra powers for authorities to utilise in case of large scale crisis and givessupplementary legislation in assistance of first two portions (Henderson and Charbonneau,2016). There are some general guidance which are utilised by National Health Service like set ofduties and accountabilities for those included in preparation of emergencies and response at thelocalised level. It needs companies in health system like NHS bodies to make for adverse events1
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