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HPA Exercise Programme

Rescue services worker on HPA exercise

The Emergency Response Department runs a series of exercises, funded by the Department of Health, to test emergency preparedness in the health service community. These exercises test current health emergency plans, helping to ensure that a wide cross-section of organisations can respond in a rapid and co-ordinated way to a range of incidents.

  • Exercise Tom Thumb
    White powder incident, 24 March 2011.
    Added/updated: 27 March 2012
  • Exercise Aquarius
    Chemical incident and decontamination, 29 –31 March 2011.
    Added/updated: 27 March 2012
  • Exercise Mosaic
    Heatwave, water contamination and fuel disruption, 19 May 2011, North West.
    Added/updated: 27 March 2012
  • Exercise Greystoke
    Field exercise involving triage and treatment involving large number of casualties, 5 July 2011, East Midlands.
    Added/updated: 27 March 2012
  • Exercise Diaspora
    Mass casualty incidents evaluating command, control and communication arrangements , 6 September 2011, South West.
    Added/updated: 27 March 2012
  • Exercise Peregrine
    Major road traffic collision (RTC) resulting in a multi-casualty incident, 5 October 2011, North East.
    Added/updated: 27 March 2012
  • Exercise Pamina
    Chemical spill involving 70 casualties, 2 November 2011, South West and East London and City.
    Added/updated: 27 March 2012
  • Exercise Vulcan
    Large number of burn injured patients, 10 November 2011, West Midlands.
    Added/updated: 27 March 2012
  • Exercise Enigma
    Winter pressures, and E.coli outbreak, 14 December 2011, NHS Midland and East.
    Added/updated: 27 March 2012
  • Exercise Vandella
    Heat wave during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, 20 March 2012, NHS South of England.
    Added/updated: 27 March 2012