Dear All
You may all know about this already but I didn't and have just been tasked with something to be completed by the end of this week and I'm clueless how to proceed. According to the stuff I've been sent (which includes Cabinet Office so-called guidance and a PCT background briefing paper - both of which go over my head) under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, trusts have a statutory duty to have in place business continuity management plans in the event of loss of functions. The PCT (presumably also the hospital trusts!) has to have in place a system by 14 November this year. The system has to go down to departmental level, hence this has landed on my desk. I, naively, would have thought that loss of any aspects of our function would not have that much effect on the big stuff going down in primary care but am told that we support clinical effectiveness and clinical competence and I need to consider how loss of library functions would impact on that and how to minimize the risk of loss.
"****!", I thought.
My instincts were to ignore this and hope that they forget about me but, BEING RESPONSIBLE, I wondered whether anyone has done this analysis already and would be bursting to share with me their approach.
David
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David Ellis
Knowledge Services Manager
Ashton, Leigh and Wigan Primary Care Trust
Library
Chandler House
Poolstock Lane
Wigan
WN3 5HL
Tel. 01942-481570
Fax 01942-481572
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