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Health Board -
CCA and Pandemic Planning
We were currently engaged by the largest Health Board in Scotland to assist them with their preparations for pandemic 'flu and compliance with the Civil Contingencies Act.
This is a large and complex project and we dedicated two consultants to work full-time with the client. Our work in this area has covered both hospital administration and front-line medical care activities. One of our consultants on this particular assignment was previously employed by a London primary care trust for several years. Applying our methodology with specific adaptations for the particular needs of a primary care trust, our work so far has covered the following planning activities:
- increasing the surge capacity of the emergency department
- implementing data collection processes for surveillance, monitoring of hospital
- inpatient and emergency department capacities
- procedures for postponing elective admissions
- establishing command and control procedures for medical response and resource management in a crisis situation
- identifying pandemic coordination team with defined roles and responsibilities for preparedness and response planning
- identifying essential employees and other critical inputs (e.g. suppliers, subcontractor services/ products, and logistics) required to maintain operations by location and function during a pandemic
- developing scenario plans likely to result in an increase or decrease in demand for services
- establishing an emergency communications plan including identification of key
- contacts (with back-ups), chain of communications and processes for tracking and communicating services and staff status;
- Policies for employee compensation and sick-leave absences unique to a pandemic (e.g. non-punitive, liberal leave)
- Developed and distributed programs and materials covering pandemic fundamentals (e.g. signs and symptoms of influenza, modes of transmission)
- Personal and family protection and response strategies (e.g. hand hygiene, coughing/sneezing etiquette, contingency plans)
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