The West Midlands Local Resilience Forum (LRF) is a partnership of member agencies, including those defined under the Civil Contingencies Act (CCA) 2004 by responder 'categories':
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust is a member of the West Midlands LRF and we are proud to work together with partner agencies to ensure that, if and when an emergency occurs, we are prepared to respond together and minimise any impact.
In the event of an incident, the partnership agencies that form the LRF join forces to:
Community Risk Register
Every Resilience Forum has a Community Risk Register (CRR) which describes risks for the community and assesses how likely they are to lead to an emergency and the potential impact they would have.
The register is created through a risk assessment and the information is used by the LRF to plan and prepare for emergencies that may occur.
The CRR focuses on serious risks that could result in an emergency, defined as:
Source: Civil Contingencies Act (2004)
The West Midlands CRR puts the national risks in a local context and, whilst it doesn’t describe all risk, it highlights those which could affect our routine day-to-day lives. You can view the West Midlands Community Risk Register here.
The potential for national emergencies is determined by Government in its National Risk Register
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