Internal Reference Number: FOI_9437
Date Request Received: 03/06/2026 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 09/07/2026 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Emergency Department evacuation exercise
Request Category: Private Individuals
| Question Number 1: Evacuation and shelter guidance for the NHS in England(1) states that exercising using an evacuation and shelter scenario should be a formal part of an NHS organisation鈥檚 Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response exercise programme. It also states that staff 鈥渟hould be given the opportunity to practice their use of all available evacuation equipment during exercises.鈥� Under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am writing to request the following information. For clarity I have enumerated the information I am requesting. If you do not hold some of this information then I ask you to confirm explicitly that you do not hold it. I request: The total number of clinical staff in Trust's Emergency Department(s). | |
| Answer To Question 1: 163 | |
| Question Number 2: The number of clinical staff in the Trust's Emergency Department(s) who have participated in an evacuation live play exercise. | |
| Answer To Question 2: The Emergency Dept have not participated in a live exercise due to operational pressures which has led to live exercises having to be cancelled. | |
| Question Number 3: The date(s) of the most recent evacuation live play exercise(s) of the Trust's Emergency Department(s). | |
| Answer To Question 3: As above. | |
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