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20/20 Vision: Comments on Exercise Cygnus (UK’s pandemic exercise in 2016)

Plan B Consulting

Today Charlie discusses how Exercise Cygnus, the UK’s pandemic exercise in 2016, holds up against the ongoing outbreak of COVID-19. The scenario was as follows: The pandemic has H2M2 which is a flu pandemic, rather than a COVID type pandemic. UK the “most prepared country”? Wrong type of flu?

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20/20 Vision: Comments on Exercise Cygnus (UK’s pandemic exercise in 2016)

Plan B Consulting

Today Charlie discusses how Exercise Cygnus, the UK’s pandemic exercise in 2016, holds up against the ongoing outbreak of COVID-19. Exercise Cygnus was a command post exercise carried out by NHS England in October 2016 in order to estimate the impact of a hypothetical H2N2 influenza pandemic on the United Kingdom.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Emergency Planning

Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009.

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Ep. 07: Spotlight on Business Continuity Programs in Healthcare | James Mitchell

The Failover Plan Podcast

The last few months he has been heavily involved with a historic pandemic response at Texas Children’s which involved a 140+ day activation of their incident command system. DeBakey & Texas Children’s Active Shooter & Mass Casualty Exercise (October 2016).

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New Year’s Resolutions

KingsBridge BCP

We’re not “done” with Covid-19 by any means, and we will have another global pandemic. Dealing with multiple simultanes events (take your pick: pandemic + wildfires, pandemic + civil unrest, economic woes + civil unrest) WILL continue to occur. Don’t believe them. It’s just a matter of when.

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5 Real-life business continuity planning cases you need to know

Online Computers

The 2016 computer virus that crippled UK hospitals. The Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, a network of hospitals in the United Kingdom, was struck by the Globe2 ransomware in 2016. Because they had data redundancies and a continuity plan in place, Cantey Technology never had to pause any services for their clients.

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Transforming Healthcare in Rural India with Telemedicine by Nisha Kadaba

PagerDuty

.” – Intelehealth patient To address the healthcare access challenge, many health systems are leveraging telemedicine, a pivotal innovation in global health.