Events

Already in to May where is the year going?
Easter is a memory, as is the May Day however looking forward more and more local and national events start to populate the calendar many of them being held in the SWAST area.

Locally events start to take place on Poole Quay, the regular Tuesday bike nights have already started and the Poole Boat Show is fast approaching. Running jointly is the European Maritime Festival and conference. I attended table top exercises for both these events this week. These were to look at how the event organiser and staff would cope with a variety of scenarios from bad weather to lost children. Predicted numbers for the joint events are around forty five thousand over the three days. This will be a large influx of visitors to the town and can only be of benefit to the local economy.

This weekend sees me on lates and night on Monday and Tuesday covering our operational commander or duty officer role. The mixed weather can bring a variety of incidents alongside the normal day to day management of the sector. Whilst I have been on leave the team have dealt with a number of significant and high profile incidents.

As the operational commander we can still be tasked to incidents as an initial response and we still attend the same development days and shifts with the learning development officer as our teams do. This ensures we deliver a high standard of care to our patients. In addition to this we receive additional training as operational commanders and our competency is assessed in this role again to ensure we are able to deliver a high level of care through our overall command and control of an incident. High quality patient care does not just stop with the hands on clinical bits!

Stay safe and have a good week.