Emergency Service Collaboration Working Group National Overview
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Emergency Services Collaboration Working Group National Overview 2016 Contents Foreword by the Emergency Services Collaboration Working Group ..................................... 4 Headlines ..................................................................................................................................... 5 First response and co-responding ............................................................................................. 6 First Response – Cardiac Arrest .......................................................................................... 7 Emergency First Response .................................................................................................. 9 Community Safety Responders (Pilot) ............................................................................... 10 Telecare Response Service ................................................................................................ 11 Co-responding ................................................................................................................... 12 Demand Management and Rationalisation .............................................................................. 14 Forced Entry and Missing People ..................................................................................... 15 Revised Policy on Sudden Deaths .................................................................................... 16 Clinical support desk – Triaging calls ................................................................................ 17 Joint Response Unit (JRU) ................................................................................................ 19 PCSOs employed as RDS Firefighters (Pilot) .................................................................... 20 Rural Intervention Vehicles ................................................................................................ 21 Shared Estates and Assets ....................................................................................................... 22 Shared HQ ......................................................................................................................... 23 Joint Vehicle Workshop ..................................................................................................... 24 Shared Training Centre ...................................................................................................... 26 Tri-Service Hub .................................................................................................................. 28 Joint Facilities .................................................................................................................... 29 Dynamic Activation Posts (DAPs) ...................................................................................... 33 FUTURE: Fleet Procurement ............................................................................................. 33 Joint Control Rooms ................................................................................................................. 34 Strategic Alliances and Partnerships ....................................................................................... 38 Information Sharing ................................................................................................................... 48 Community Safety – Operation Insight ............................................................................. 49 Information Sharing Protocol and Operational Learning ................................................... 50 Embedded Fire Officer into the North West Counter Terrorism Unit and Civil Contingencies Resilience Unit ................................................................................... 52 Wider Collaboration .................................................................................................................. 54 Community Engagement ................................................................................................... 55 Housing .............................................................................................................................. 60 Local Resilience Forums.................................................................................................... 65 NPCC/CFOA National Overview of Police and Fire Collaboration ......................................... 68 Consensus Statement on Improving Health and Wellbeing ................................................... 70 CFOA/AACE Consensus Statement ......................................................................................... 72 AACE/NPCC Managing Demand Best Practice Guide ........................................................... 74 Service Information ................................................................................................................... 76 Service index ............................................................................................................................. 86 Foreword by the Emergency Services Working Group In support of a desire at both a national and The refreshed overview is designed to provide local level to support emergency service services and associations with a variety of collaboration, and in response to a request examples of significant collaborative projects from central government to outline a number from across the country, which are designed of collaborative projects suitable for upscaling to help deliver the efficient and effective on either a regional or national level; the emergency services everyone would like to see. Emergency Services Collaboration Working The review is designed to be as accessible as Group (ESCWG) have been working with possible and to be used in accordance with services and associations to refresh the local needs and priorities. The ESCWG would 2014 National Overview with examples of like to express its thanks to the significant collaborative projects, plans and initiatives number and variety of organisations who have from across England and Wales. The examples provided examples of collaborative practice, provided within this document are warmly and looks forward to being able to use the welcomed and provide a real insight into the information to help drive the collaboration sheer scale of progress over the course of the agenda forward; both across the emergency last two years. services themselves and the wider public sector. About the Emergency Services Collaboration Working Group The Emergency Services Collaboration Working Group was formed in September 2014 and helps provide strategic leadership and coordination to help drive and improve emergency service collaboration across England and Wales. The working group comprises of senior leaders from the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives (AACE), The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC), College of Policing, Chief Fire Officers Association (CFOA), the Local Government Association (LGA) and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA). LEADBEYOND 4 Emergency Services Collaboration Working Group – National Overview Headlines 5 First Response and Co-responding The following projects have resulted in In this section faster response times and enhanced First Response – Cardiac Arrest interoperability between the services. Emergency First Response Taxpayers will see greater efficiency from their services as a result of the Community Safety Responders (Pilot) collaborative co-ordinated responses. Telecare Response Service Enhanced communication and Co-responding understanding of other services is improving the effectiveness of the services across the board. 6 Emergency Services Collaboration Working Group – National Overview • Three fire stations in the London Borough of First Response – Greenwich are the first in London to install defibrillators on the outside of their buildings, Cardiac Arrest these have been installed as part of the • London London Ambulance Service ‘Shockingly • Merseyside (Pilot) Easy’ campaign to install more defibrillators • Greater Manchester across London. • Wales (Mid and West) Merseyside (Pilot) • Essex (February 2016) • Hertfordshire Merseyside Police and NWAS Police have AEDs in a number of vehicles Background and have received training from NWAS which enables them to respond to any spontaneous In the UK approximately 30,000 people incidents. Consideration is being given to the sustain cardiac arrests outside of hospital and police participating in a pilot with MFRS and are treated by emergency medical services NWAS which involves formal deployment (EMS) each year. Electrical defibrillation is well as part of the Emergency Services Medical established as the only effective therapy for Response scheme. cardiac arrest caused by ventricular defibrillation (VF) or pulseless ventricular tachycardia (VT). Greater Manchester GMP, GMFRS and NWAS In the event of suspected cardiac arrests (SCAs), police and fire and rescue personnel All GMFRS firefighters across the entire Service are equipped to respond with automated now respond to cardiac arrests in support of external defibrillators (AEDs), providing prompter the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) response times and increasing patients’ chances and mobilise to 20% of all cardiac arrests in of survival and subsequent quality of life. Greater Manchester. Implementation Public Access Defibrillators (PADs) will be provided in all GMFRS fire stations, for use London by employees, visitors and members of the