NHS Resilience and Business Continuity Management Guidance 2008

The UK Department of Health has published ‘NHS Resilience and Business Continuity Management Guidance 2008’, which provides interim guidance on business continuity for National Health Service organisations.

The NHS Resilience and Business Continuity Management Guidance 2008 has been prepared under the auspices of the Department of Health’s NHS Resilience Project, with expert input from a workshop event that met in London in November 2007.

The aim of the guidance is to:

* Improve resilience within the NHS;
* Ensure the continuous operational delivery of healthcare services when faced with a range of disruptive challenges;
* Help drive NHS compliance with the Civil Contingencies Act 2004;
* Allow a unified and cohesive approach to business continuity management which parallels BS 25999, and;
* Develop a resilient healthcare system which can be benchmarked against other similar sized organisations.

The NHS is seeking professional views on the interim guidance and its usefulness to NHS organisations in fulfilling their statutory requirements. The consultation closes on 30 September 2008.

Download the guidance and consultation documents from here.

•Date: 19th June 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Public sector BC
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