Emergency Management

At times Waikato Hospital staff have to manage emergency situations or crises. These can include:

acute clinical episodes, such as a cardiac arrest
fire
environmental hazards, such as a hazardous substance spill
breaches of security
bomb threats
utility failure
industrial action
an unexpected influx of acutely ill patients (such as a multi-casualty incident or public health emergency).

Emergency Management (Ministry of Health)

Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management

Depending on the event, this type of incident can have a major impact on one part of the hospital (leaving other areas unaffected), or it can affect the whole organisation.

Emergency plans

Currently there are documented emergency response and recovery plans for each clinical and non-clinical service based at the Waikato Hospital campus, plus one over-arching Waikato Hospital plan. Each of these plans includes:

how the plan is activated
critical dependencies
critical equipment
key functions
an alternative location
duty cards for key people
resources and supplies required for relocation
appendices which should include contact staff list and key service contacts.

Emergency Management

Emergency plans

Major Incident Plan

Waikato DHB Pandemic Plan

Media release

Primary Care Pandemic Resources