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An image of a patient surrounded by staff in the Emergency Department, during exercise Unified Response, designed and delivered by Incident Ready at St Thomas’ hospital in London

Exercise Unified Response: a live multi-agency exercise at St Thomas' Hospital, London

Major benefits from rehearsing your incident response

Major Benefits from Rehearsing your Incident Response

Are your teams ready to respond? Can you quickly stabilise an incident, establish the facts and business impacts, warn your staff, invoke continuity plans and issue approved communications, including to regulators all within a few hours?

 

Benefits of running an Exercise with Incident Ready Consulting

 

Confidence

  •   That your Incident Management Team has rehearsed response in a safe environment

  •   That your plans have been stress tested with no risk to the business

  •   That your response plans are effective and fit for purpose

 

Learning

  •    Engaging scenarios deepen learning and help retain important lessons

  •    Expand your understanding of how to work with emergency services, partners and insurers

  •    Identify gaps in how plans join up (across departments and with key suppliers)

A subtitled video of Justin Cuckow describing the various types of exercise available and the steps that Incident Ready consulting use to deliver them

We follow a structured approach to build the exercise with you

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With hundreds of hours of experience of delivering a wide range of exercises from desktop to full live simulations with media involvement, let us know how we can help tailor and deliver an exercise for your incident management teams. Start planning now to rehearse response to the risks you are most worried about.

Visit our case studies to see examples of live exercises delivered by Incident Ready Consulting. 

  • Chemical Spill exercise at Plessey Semiconductors

  • Major Incident (mass casualty) exercise at St Thomas’ Hospital, London

Exercise library An image of example scenarios used including cyber attack and major fires.

“While at St Thomas’ Justin was central to designing and running a successful live major incident exercise in A&E (Exercise Unified Response) to test response and business continuity along the critical care pathway, delivering valuable learning opportunities for the clinicians and assurance to the Trust that we were prepared to manage a major incident.”

Katherine Henderson, President at The Royal College of Emergency Medicine

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