Book Now - The National Ambulance Resilience Conference 2012

20th September at the AMBITION 2012 event, Silverstone Racetrack, Northampton, UK - extremely central location, easy to get to.

BOOKINGS are now being taken for the inaugural National Ambulance Resilience Conference, which is being staged by the National Ambulance Resilience Unit www.naru.org.uk, a DH organisation hosted by West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust.

ABOUT NARU
The National Ambulance Resilience Unit (NARU) works with all NHS Ambulance Trusts in England - and those in the the Devolved Administrations - to help strengthen national resilience and improve patient outcomes in a variety of challenging pre-hospital environments.

NARU works with ambulance trusts to support the development of properly trained, equipped and prepared ambulance responders to deal with hazardous or difficult situations, particularly mass casualty incidents that represent a significant risk to public health.

Aside from providing strategic input to Government policy on ambulance
resilience issues, NARU, working with the Department of Health, assists with the effective national coordination and implementation of the pre-hospital health response to government policies that are
designed to improve civil contingencies and national resilience across England.

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
This is a one-day event aimed at all ambulance staff, clinicians working in pre-hospital, A&E or military hospital environments and those operating alongside the ambulance service in partner agencies such as fire and police. It will also be of use to anyone working in the emergency planning or civil contingencies fields.

THE COST
Just £45 + VAT (£54 total) for anyone working in the public sector and
£90 + VAT (£108 total) for private sector delegates. This includes all-day refreshments and delegate lunch. Prices have been kept low to encourage attendance. Book now at www.ambition2012.org

OTHER MEETINGS AT AMBITION 2012
Several Ambulance groups are planning to meet at the event, including
the Chief Executives of all Ambulance Trusts, the Chairs of all Ambulance Trusts, the HART Vehicle & Equipment Group, HART Managers and Teams, Procurement Teams and others.

CONFERENCE AGENDA
There are 12 speakers and the agenda is as follows (correct as of
today's date):

08.00 Exhibition hall open to delegates and free visitors

08.00 Registration / coffee / visiting exhibition

09.00 NATIONAL AMBULANCE RESILIENCE CONFERENCE STARTS

09.00 - 09.10 Conference Chair: Robert Flute, Head of Resilience, East
of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust & Chair of Norfolk Resilience
Forum: Welcome from the Chair, outline of the day.

09.10 - 09.20 SPEAKER 1: Keith Prior, Director of NARU & Assistant
Chief Ambulance Officer at West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust:
Overview of strategic progress on national ambulance resilience
issues, the launch of NARU.

09.20 - 09.30 SPEAKER 2: Mike Shanahan, Deputy Director of NARU:
The development of NARU - challenges and issues to date.

09.30 - 09.50 SPEAKER 3: Christina Scott, Director of the Civil
Contingencies Secretariat at the Cabinet Office: Interoperability

09.50 - 10.10 SPEAKER 4: Dave Bull, NARU Education and Command
Training Lead & Paul Kudray, Director of Resilience, North West
Ambulance Service NHS Trust: Resilience education and development for
the future - achieving and maintaining quality in NHS Command and
Control.

10.10 - 10.30 SPEAKER 5: John Newman, Head of Emergency Operations at
St John Ambulance and Nick Barr - British Red Cross:
The role of the voluntary sector during a major incident.

10.30 - 11.00 BREAK - REFRESHMENT BREAK IN THE EXHIBITION HALL

11.00 - 11.20 SPEAKER 6: Marc Beveridge, Chair of the Emergency
Planning Society and Regional Head of Resilience at the Health
Protection Agency: Topic title TBC

11.20 - 11.40 SPEAKER 7: Vivien Cleary, Health Protection Agency:
Public Health England and what it means for EP

11.40 - 12.00 SPEAKER 8: Andy Wapling, Head of Emergency Preparedness,
NHS London: The future of NHS emergency preparedness

12.00 - 12.20 SPEAKER 9: Dr Tony Zarola, Occupational Psychologist &
Director of Zeal Solutions Ltd: Resilience and the Prepared Mind

12.20 - 13.45 LUNCH IN THE EXHIBITION HALL

13.50 - 14.10 SPEAKER 10: Simon Parr, Chief Constable, Cambridgeshire
Police and ACPO Lead on Resilience: Topic title TBC

14.10 - 14.30 SPEAKER 11: Tim Daniels, Air Operations Manager, East of
England Ambulance Service NHS Trust: Topic title TBC

14.30 - 14.50 SPEAKER 12: Dr Dave Sloggett, Independent Consultant and
Academic at King's College London: Olympic Perspectives

14.50 - 15.30 REFRESHMENT BREAK IN THE EXHIBITION HALL

15.30 - 16.00 PANEL SESSION: QUESTION TIME PANEL Q & A hosted by the
Conference Chair. Five people will be invited to participate in an
open debate with the audience on all matters relating to
national ambulance resilience, preparedness and planning.

16.00 - 16.10 Conference Chair: Robert Flute, Head of Resilience, East
of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust & Chair of Norfolk Resilience
Forum: Summary of the day

16.10 CONFERENCE ENDS

16.10 - 17.00 EXHIBITION AND REFRESHMENTS OPEN UNTIL 17.00

17.00 EVENT CLOSES

HOW TO BOOK
Visit either www.ambition2012.org and click on 'register now' or visit
the links on the www.naru.org.uk website.

FREE VISITORS
If you'd just like to visit the event, see the exhibition, and meet the suppliers who will be showing their products, it is free to do so, as long as you pre-register first via the links listed above in 'How to book'.

EXHIBITORS
We have a range of exhibitors booked in to showcase their products and
services, with only a handful of stands left. These include:

* Excelerate Technology (our main sponsors)
* BMW specialist vehicles
* Volvo Cars UK
* Prometheus Medical
* Optima Corporation
* Openhouse Products
* TSG Associates
* SP Services
* CAE Healthcare
* Specialwear
* GMK Ltd
* Airwave Solutions
* Emergency Services Times
* PPSGB
* Ferno
* Zeal Solutions
* REVIVE Airways
* Public Safety Cycling
* PROCLUS
* Honeywell
* Zoll Medical
* BOC
* Amputees In Action
* Ortus
* East of England Resilience (Training)
* Rescue and Medical
* Laerdal
* Antares
* Respirex
* Thomas Jacks
* Microbus
* Weinmann
* Gaumard Scientific

QUERIES AND QUESTIONS
Please email the organiser, Carl Rees at carl.rees@reesps.com or call 07958 547727.