MANUALS SERVICE

DEVELOPMENT OF ESTATES EMERGENCY MANUALS

We have considerable experience of preparing site specific Estates Emergency Manuals is accordance with Health Technical Memorandum (HTM 2070) which includes over 30 Emergencies/Incidents.

In 1996 we produced a framework Estates Emergency Manual for in-house customisation which was adopted by more than 100 No. NHS Hospital Estates Departments.

At that time we also customised EEMs for a large number of Hospitals. We are currently in the process of completing customised manuals for St. Mary's Hospital. Charing Cross Hospital and Hammersmith Hospital, which form the Imperial Healthcare Trust. These manuals are all based on (HTM 2070).

The Civil Contingencies Act CCA 2000 requires emergency procedures for NHS Estates Departments, as does the Care Quality Commission (CQC Outcome 10 - Safety and Suitability of Premises) but no template has been produced by the authorities and until guidance is available our manuals will be based on (HTM 2070) with enhancements.

Preparing a site specific Estates Emergency Manual without a template will be prohibitively expensive and very difficult to achieve.

AN ESTATES EMERGENCY MANUAL IS AN INVALUABLE AID IN RE-INSTATING SERVICES TO NORMAL AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.