ESRC-COMPLEXITY SEMINAR SERIES
SEMINAR 6: Post 7/7 and 9/11: What lessons have been learnt on evacuating, following a major disaster? What can state of the art modelling, simulations and a complexity theory approach contribute to policy?
SESSION 2: JOHN POOLEY, “ON THE GROUND – A FIRST RESPONDER’S EXPERIENCE”
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ABSTRACT
This presentation looks at the issues facing a modern ambulance service. It explores the challenges to providing frontline emergency medical care to the public of London in the various situations that today’s ambulance services have to work.
The challenges explored are: Adverse weather and how this affects response, How London’s emergency services work together to manage large scale incidents, Command and Control structures, Training and Exercising, Providing care in hazardous areas, Urban search and rescue, CBRN Incidents and public order events.
Finally the presentation looks at the human element of large scale incidents and explores how the London Ambulance Service have put in processes to deal with the individual and not just the incident.