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Now is the winter of our discontent

Happy New Year to all of you. A time of celebration, of reflection, of goal-setting and ambition driving. Yet sadly a time of year when...

From Integration to Coordination

Somehow it is now June 2022 and it seems a long time since I first talked about the impact of the latest legislative change to Emergency...

Funding for LRFs

In the United Kingdom, Local Resilience Forums (LRFs) are non-statutory bodies designed to provide a single platform to bring together...

Destination Vaccination

It has been a number of months since I last put digital pen to paper through my blog, but it feels like only a number of days. In the...

Hancock v PHE

In keeping with the momentum of 2020, HM Government’s Secretary for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, announced via The Telegraph...

Time for Legislative Reform?

At the University College London Institute of Disaster and Risk Reduction (UCL IRDR) 10th Annual Conference yesterday I had the...

A vision of the future?

A category 5 tropical cyclone sweeping across America. A 14m high tsunami crashing into the shores of Japan. A 7.0 magnitude earthquake...

Learning and improving

Learning our lessons Learning from incidents is a critical activity in the world of disaster management, but do we do it effectively? The...

Concurrent incidents – are we prepared?

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is arguably the biggest international public health and emergency management challenge faced in a...

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