TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2005//
TI  - Chemical incidents: are we ready in the West Midlands? Testing the communication arrangements of on-call public health doctors
JO  - Public health
A1  - Pooransingh, S.
A1  - Kibble, A.
A1  - Saunders, Patrick
SP  - 67
EP  - 69
VL  - 119
IS  - 1
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0033-3506
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2003.12.009
ID  - ref1
ER  -