Gail King
Head of Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response
NHS England-Thames Valley
November 2013

Thames Valley Local Health Resilience Partnership Structure
Thames Valley LRF Executive Group
Thames Valley LHRP
Co-chairs: Louise Watson, Director Ops & Delivery
& Jonathan McWilliam, Director of Public Health,
Oxfordshire
Attendees: Louise Watson, Director Ops
& Delivery & Gail King, Head of EPRR
Thames Valley
LRF Working
Group
Attendee: Gail
King, Head of
EPRR
Provider
Resilience
Operations
Group
Chair:
Thomas
Lafferty,
Director
Corporate
Affairs,
Wexham Park
Hospital
Emergency
Planning
Officers
Forum
Chair: Louisa
Berry,
Emergency
Planning
Officer,
Wexham Park
Hospital
Public
Health
Emergency
Planning
Forum
Chair: Angela
Baker, OCC,
Public Health
Team
CCG Forum
Chair: Jane
McVea,
Accountable
Emergency
Officer,
Aylesbury &
Vale CCG
Milton
Keynes
Health
Resilience
Group
Georgie
Brown & Gail
King
County
Resilience
Groups
LRF Sub Groups

Receiving
Hospitals
Other Hospitals
Local Authority Public
Health On-call
SCAS TVEA
CCG on-call for affected area NHS England (Thames
Valley)
Public Health England
On-call
Other relevant providers *
Community Trusts
NHS 111 Service
Primary Care
NHS England
(South)
Other Area teams including
S. Midlands &
Hertfordshire
CCG on-call for areas not directly affected
* Other relevant providers may include:
Mental Health Trusts
Community Trusts
Learning Disability Trusts
Social and Community Services
Independent Treatment Centres
GP Out of Hours
NHS 111
Key:
Other ambulance services
Direction of information flow for all major incident standby/declarations
Direction of information flow to Services and organisations informed only if the scale or nature of the incident requires it

Cabinet Office Briefing Room
(COBR)
Other
Government
Departments
Resilience and Emergencies
Divisions (RED), Department for
Communities and Local
Government
Department of Health
Public Health
England
NHS England
Local Resilience Forum /
Strategic Coordinating Group
Local Authorities
(incl. DsPH)
Public Health
England Local and Regional
Teams
NHS England,
Area Teams and Regional
Teams
Clinical Commissioning Groups, NHS Provider Organisations, Ambulance,
Social Care and other service providers

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• DH UK Influenza Pandemic Preparedness
Strategy 2011.
• Cabinet Office Preparing for Pandemic Influenza,
Guidance for Local Planners 2013
• NHS England Operating Framework for Managing the Response to Pandemic Influenza 2013
• NHS England Guidance on the Current & Future
Preparedness in Support of an Outbreak
• DH/NHSE/PHE Flu Plan-Winter 2013/14

• NHS England-Thames Valley Business Continuity
Plan 2013 (supported by Directorate Business
Impact Analysis and Service Continuity Plans)
• TV Local Resilience Forum: Multi-Agency
Influenza Pandemic Framework 2013
• PHE Centre Business Continuity Plan
• LA: Infectious Disease /Pandemic Influenza Plans

• NHS England-Thames Valley Seasonal Influenza
Immunisation Plan 2013
• NHS England-Thames Valley Winter Pressures
Planning: Primary Care Winter Plan 2013/14
• CCG Business Continuity Plans
• Providers: Specific /generic plans in place. Plans developed in accordance with current best practice and risk.

CCG Pandemic Influenza Operational Framework
Guidance on PPE including FFP3 and other masks
(November 2013)
Service Requirements of ACP (December 2013)
NHS Surge Guidance (Spring 2014)

National Tier One Exercise (December 2014)
TV LRF Pandemic Influenza Exercise
Clinical Reference Group (December 2013)
Collaborative working across the Thames Valley

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