20 May 2022
Working together on Exercise Rainbow
All hands were on-deck for a mass training exercise at RSH in which we and colleagues from other organisations dealt with a train crash scenario involving 200 ‘casualties’.
arrived at the hospital and were opportunity to experience a dealt with by emergency service pressurised environment and staff. understand how key decisions are made. Contamination tents were set up because of an unknown white “It has gone extremely well, and powder seen at the scene and we can all learn such a lot from some patients who had these large-scale exercises. I We joined colleagues from supposedly been exposed to the would also like to thank all those Shropshire Fire and Rescue powder were hosed down and that took part, from the Service, West Midlands treated. volunteers, my colleagues and Ambulance Service, West those from our partners across Mercia Police, and a wide Sara Biffen, Acting Chief the emergency services and range of other multi-agency Operating Officer, said: beyond.” partners for “Exercise “Exercises such as this are a Rainbow.” crucial way of testing that All the teams took part in arrangements are in place in the debriefings after the exercise to ‘Volunteer patients’ - some event of a major incident. give their views on how it went made up to appear that they had and what they learnt from the sustained severe injuries “It offers us and our partners the day. See pages 2 and 3
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