Phil Storr’s (Head of NHS Resilience, Department of Health, England) presentation from BSI's (British Standards Institution) launch of the standard for healthcare resilience - PAS 2015 NHS Resilience Next Steps • The importance of business continuity management and the responsibilities of category 1 and 2 responders • The NHS Resilience Project • Discuss the current tools, resources and guidance available to resilience planners, highlighting PAS 2015 and the benefits it offers to practitioners • Maintaining momentum in resilience and preparedness during organisational changes.

1. NHS Resilience
Next Steps
Phil Storr
Head of NHS Resilience Project
Department of Health
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2. NHS Resilience ~
Next Steps
• The importance of business continuity
management and the responsibilities of category
1 and 2 responders.
• The NHS Resilience Project.
• The current tools, resources and guidance
available to resilience planners.
• Maintaining momentum in resilience and
preparedness during organisational changes.
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3. Business Continuity
Management for Category 1
& 2 Responders.
• BCM is a core requirement of the CCA 2004
• NHS Operating Framework ‘be prepared’
• Understanding your supply chains
• Business Impact Assessments.
• Work with supplies and providers of services
to understand continuity issues.
• Understanding disruptive risks.
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4. NHS Resilience
Project
Aim
To improve resilience within the NHS to
ensure continuous operational delivery of
healthcare services when faced with a range
of disruptive challenges either internal or
external which can, if not correctly managed,
lead to major disruption to services.
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5. National Capabilities Survey
2006 - Identified a need to focus on Business
Continuity Management across the
NHS.
2008 - Progress in embedding BCM as a core
activity, but further work still needed.
2010 - ???? - results due shortly.
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6. Towards Success
‘Awareness of BCM in the health sector is
high, and may reflect the Department of
Health’s high-level resilience project. BS25999
has been accepted as the basis for BCM and
specific NHS guidance is being produced.’
Chartered Management Institute
‘A Decade of Living Dangerously – The BCM report 2009’
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7. Balancing Agenda’s -
Commissioning
Lean
Resilience Sustainability
Governance,
Performance &
Transition
Risk Appetite
Service
Management
Strategic
Positioning
Reform
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9. BSI BS 25999-2 On Line
Audit Toolkit
• Supplied to each NHS Trust in England up to December
2010
• Business Continuity Self-assessment toolkit can operate
across multiple sites/multiple users or as a standalone
application.
• Tools to plan, implement, operate, review, record and
report on your business continuity management system
(BCMS)
• Can work through an organisation’s business continuity
management system (BCMS), systematically identifying
strengths and weak areas
• Can work towards undertaking an external audit
• With the information gained it can prepare organisations to
more effectively manage incidents
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10. NHS Resilience Resources
Stakeholder Group and Project Board
National road-shows
Department of Health Resilience Guidance
British Standard NHS BS25999
PAS 2015
Audit Tool
 Website pending
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11. Maintaining Momentum in
Resilience and Preparedness
• Disruptive challenges
remain.
• Resilience is a
transition priority.
• Build on our success to
date.
• Maintain board level
commitment crucial.
• Manage reputation both
in planning & response.
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