Survey: Do you feel your hospital is prepared to handle a major disaster?

[Brian]

Here are the results of last months survey question:

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[sarjeetgill]

I agree with your assessment of your hospital's ability to meet major emergency needs. The centralised system, in the UK,is better adapted to

meet the needs of a major disaster because all the Hospitals in work in tandem. Here, in the Canada and the US, each hospital has it's own little Niche but lack overall preparedness.

Good work, Keep it up. Is it still raining?

[nurseybikerchic]

We just had one of the warmest octobers on record, all the trees still have their leaves, which is pretty unusual for this time of year. On the disaster front, we curently have rumours flying around the place that we could all be queing up for anthrax jabs to go with the flu jabs they try and persuade the staff to have every year. So far as I know, we have no confirmed anthrax outbreaks in the UK so far. Ive been doing some reading up though, all the British nursing journals have got articles in about dealing with cases of anthrax. Best to be knowledgable and prepared I say.

All the best:D