Evacuation Plan

Introduction

The Trusts evacuation plan has been developed to ensure a coordinated response in maintaining patient / staff safety in the event of a need to evacuate. The plan will be exercised and tested, in line with local policies and procedures. It should be noted that the plan covers any eventuality which may require partial or full evacuation including fire, flood, deliberate harm (i.e., bomb) etc. triggering Internal & Major Incident response.

The plan engages all key stakeholders; emergency planners, fire officers, estates & facilities, senior management and all clinical staff) to ensure an effective response, including:

• Command and Control response
• Horizontal & Vertical evacuation considerations (as per the local fire strategy)
• Hospital zoning
• Site and asset security
• Traffic management
• Communication cascade
• Patient tracking
• Redeployment of staff
• Onward bed allocation

The Plan includes the following key elements:

• Definition of key scales and stages of evacuation
• A description of the expected Command and Control Structures
• A description of a patient evacuation classification and evacuation triage mechanisms
• An example of hospital zoning systems
• A description of a standardised Patient Tracking System

Policy Details

See also:

• Internal Incident Policy
• Major Incident Policy
• Fire Policy
• Local Ward Fire Strategy
• Lockdown Plan
• Health Technical memorandum (0501) – 2014