@article{ref1,
title="Chemical incidents: are we ready in the West Midlands? Testing the communication arrangements of on-call public health doctors",
journal="Public health",
year="2005",
author="Pooransingh, S. and Kibble, A. and Saunders, Patrick",
volume="119",
number="1",
pages="67-69",
abstract="Primary care trusts are responsible for handling major chemical hazards. This includes the testing and exercising of plans in a regular and routine manner. The Chemical Hazards and Poisons Division (Birmingham), which provides a 24-h, 365-day resource for the West Midlands region in the UK, undertook an audit to test the out-of-hours communication arrangements of public health doctors. The audit revealed that there is an urgent need to: (1) review contact details within on-call packs; (2) ensure that doctors performing on-call duties know, at the very least, the names of the primary care trusts/local authorities, county councils/other trusts in the area; and (3) ensure a failsafe method for contacting the person on call for public health.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0033-3506",
doi="10.1016/j.puhe.2003.12.009",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2003.12.009"
}