Portfolio

Department of Health
NHS Emergency Planning Guidance
Planning for the development and deployment of Medical Emergency Response Incident Teams in the provision of advanced medical care at the scene of an incident

Best practice guidance in developing and deploying Medical Emergency
Incident Response Teams.

Department of Health
NHS Emergency Planning Guidance
The ambulance service guidance on dealing with radiological incidents and emergencies

Best practice guidance describes the role of NHS Ambulance Trusts in planning, preparing and responding to radiation incidents and emergencies involving irradiated and contaminated people.

Department of Health
NHS Emergency Planning Guidance
Planning for the psychosocial and mental health care of people affected by major incidents and disasters: Interim national strategic guidance

This interim strategic guidance provides best practice in planning, preparing and managing psychosocial and mental health services in response to traumatic events and all types of emergencies resulting in an abnormal situation that poses any threat to the health of the community or in providing services for psychosocial care following such events.

Department of Health
NHS Emergency Planning Guidance 2009
Planning for the evacuation and sheltering of people in health sector settings: Interim strategic national guidance

This guidance supports a general set of principles to guide all NHS organisations in developing plans to manage the evacuation and shelter of healthcare premises within the context of the NHS Emergency Planning Guidance 2005

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Psychosocial Care for People Affected by Disasters and Major Incidents

A Model for Designing, Delivering and Managing Psychosocial Services for People Involved in Major Incidents, Conflict, Disasters and Terrorism.

September 2008

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Principles for Disaster and Major Incident Psychosocial Care

Guidance for responding to the psychosocial and mental health needs of people affected by disasters or major incidents.

Department of Health
The NHS Resilience and Business Continuity Management Guidance 2008: interim strategic national guidance for NHS organisations

The Interin Guidance builds on the outputs of the 2007 resilience Project symposium and the NHS Resilience Board and Stakeholder Group.

Department of Health
NHS Emergency Planning Guidance
Planning for the Evacuation and Sheltering of people in health sector settings: interim strategic national guidance

This guidance supports a set of principles to guide all NHS organisations in developing plans to manage the evacuation and shelter of healthcare premises within the context of the NHS Emergency Planning Guidance 2005.

Department of Health
NHS Emergency Planning Guidance 2005
Planning for the management of blast injured patients

This guidance sets out a set of general principles to guide all NHS organisations in the provision of services to plan and respond for the management of blast injured patients within the context of the NHS Emergency Planning Guidance 2005.

Department of Health
Pandemic Influenza: Guidance for ambulance services and their staff in England

This document provides ambulance trusts with a clear and pragmatic guidance to assist with their planning and preparations for an influenza pandemic. Specifically, it advises on national strategy, clinical management (including infection control) and business continuity planning.

Department of Health
NHS Emergency Planning Guidance 2005
Underpinning materials

A set of general principles to guide all NHS organisations in developing their ability to respond to an emergency where the number of patients substantially exceeds normal critical care capacity within the context of the NHS Emergency Planning Guidance 2005.

Department of Health
NHS Emergency Planning Guidance 2005

The purpose of this best practice guidance is to describe a general set of principles to National Health Service (NHS) organisations in planning, preparing and responding to all types of emergencies arising from any accident, natural disaster, failure of utilities or systems or hostile act resulting in an abnormal casualty situation or posing any threat to the health of the community or in the provision of services that involve significant numbers of burn injured paand children.

Comprehensive Critical Care...
Comprehensive Critical Care: A Review of Adult Critical Care Services

This report describes a service which focuses on the needs of patients and how they can be met through partnership between professions and specialties. The report recommends that the existing division into high dependency and intensive care beds be replaced by a classification that focuses on the level of care that individual patients need.

The NHS Confederation
Briefing: Healthy Sustainable Neighbourhoods

This Briefing examines the concept of the neighbourhood from several different perspectives – the individual, regeneration or civic renewal, and community development. It argues that the NHS has a major contribution to make to the creation of sustainable healthy neighbourhoods, and that the quality of neighbourhoods is, in turn, a major factor in people’s health.

Health & Social Care Change Agent Team
Sustaining Health Through Housing

This report seeks to challenge the assumption that rehousing is automatically an effective health intervention and that residential change, in and of itself, can alleviate suffering, cure illness, enhance access to care or enhance quality of life. Rehousing from temporary to permanent housing or from an overcrowded to a less overcrowded situation is likely to improve someone's health. However, rehousing or housing improvements will only improve peoples' health if there is a proper consideration of the available evidence, what we have learnt from observation and tenant and resident priorities and perceptions.

Health Action
Health and Housing Network:
Decent Homes - Decent Health

A discussion on the evidence that there are strong links between poor housing and health.

Milton Keynes & South Midlands Health & Social Care Project
Healthy Sustainable Communities: A Spatial planning checklist

Planning has a key role in shaping the environment around us and the places in which we live. This checklist is designed to strengthen the involvement of the NHS in spatial planning and to support the development of sustainable communities. In particular, this checklist is designed to enable individuals and agencies to improve their understanding of each other’s perspectives, and to find innovative ways of using that learning to achieve common goals, such as reducing health inequalities and other forms of social exclusion.

NHS Modernisation Agency
Public Health Collaborative Leadership Development Group

Report on an illustrative survey on the leadership development of those currently in posts of health leadership across seven chosen sectors

A Public Health Collaborative Leadership Development Group (PHCLDG) was established to develop health leadership across Government and other sectors to embrace all whose work impacts on health. This Group commissioned an illustrative survey of the leadership status of people in health leadership positions across seven sectors.

This report sets out the findings and draws conclusions from the survey, consideration of the trajectory of health policy development and a short review of leadership development opportunities on offer to recommend actions which will promote health leadership to the greatest effect.

NHS Service Delivery and Organisation (SDO) Programme
Managing Change in the NHS: Developing Change Management Skills

This is a development resource primarily intended for managers and other professionals promoting or leading change in healthcare and who wish to improve their ability to apply change management tools. The resource is also valuable for developers, trainers and educators wishing to build capacity for organisational change.

London Health Observatory
The Health of Londoners Project

This report describes some of the ways in which the housing
market in London exacerbates health problems and creates further inequalities in health.

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2000; 54:703-704 (September)
Leadership for health

How can we ensure that the values and principles of public health become central to health and social policy?