Take 5 To Prepare - Business Continuity

 

The 'Take 5 to Prepare' briefing note for January 2022 is here.

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a major impact on EEAST and all other NHS organisations over the last 2 years. A large part of this has been the reduction in staffing levels and the impact on different departments across the Trust whilst responding to the Pandemic.

Business Continuity is concerned with the impact of what has happened and not the actual incident itself. The question is, would you still be able to deliver your service if you experience any one or all the following

• Loss of staff
• Contagious illness (influenza/Covid-19)
• Industrial action (disputes)
• Transport outage (trains, fuel, buses)
• Inability to offload ambulances at A&E (not enough staff resources)
• Lack of infrastructure
• Power, Gas, Water outage
• IT network failure
• Severe weather, flooding
• Denial of access
• Fire (within premises or adjacent buildings)
• Bomb alert (within premises or immediate area)
• Structural damage (within premises or adjacent buildings)
• Area evacuation

Please view the document below for more details.

Published 2nd March 2022