Two free sets of seminars will be available to visitors attending The Emergency Services Show, at the NEC in Birmingham on September 24 and 25. All seminars are free to attend and no booking is required. The full seminar programmes are available on www.emergencyuk.com.
The Innovation Theatre with Vodafone will cover the latest developments in surveillance, social media, mobile communications and PPE. Speakers include:
Sergeant Stuart Murrell, Metropolitan Police Service who will be speaking about the role of Body Worn Video (BWV), in police and its potential use for other services;
Matthew Wroughton, West Midlands Fire Service will present a session about a software project to video stream live footage from smart phones during 999 calls;
Assistant Chief Constable Sean White, Cleveland Police who will discuss current and future application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles; and
Luana Avagliono, Head of Resilience Direct Team, Civil Contingencies Secretariat, Cabinet Office will explain more about a digital information management service for local and central resilience.
Meanwhile the Interoperability Theatre, developed with the Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Programme (JESIP), will include case studies on successful multi-agency working presented by responders from Lincolnshire Emergency Services and Dorset Emergency Services. Winter floods, National Occupational Standard and the future role of Local Resilience Forums are also on the agenda and representatives from JESIP, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit, RNLI, Highways Agency, Skills for Justice, Environment Agency, CFOA National Resilience and the Cabinet Office will all be speaking.
The show provides visitors with practical training through workshops and live demonstrations and an indoor and outdoor exhibition. The College of Paramedics will be running free Continual Professional Development (CPD) sessions, a mix of 30-minute lectures and workshops. Topics covered will include burns, paediatric assessment, mental health, emergency childbirth, stepwise to airway management and paediatric ALS. All attendees will be provided with CPD certificates. Physio-Control will also be running workshops covering sudden cardiac death, traumatic cardiac arrest and drowning, led by experts from London Ambulance Service and RNLI.
The Emergency Planning Society (EPS) is holding its annual conference at the NEC on the second day of the show. Titled Dealing with the aftermath, the EPS will look at the impact on communities for nuclear contamination. Dr Dilys Morgan, Chair of the Human Animal Infections and Risk Surveillance Group (HAIRS), will also give a presentation outlining lessons identified in tackling the current Ebola crisis, having just returned herself from helping in Sierra Leone.
Now in its ninth year, The Emergency Services Show is aimed at all involved in emergency response, planning and recovery. It has attracted over 400 exhibiting companies and organisations supplying emergency equipment, vehicles and solutions. Entry and parking are free. The NEC is linked to Birmingham International Station and Birmingham Airport and is accessible from UK motorways. Coaches will run from Birmingham International Station to the exhibition halls and a 25 per cent discount is available to visitors booking travel with Virgin Trains.
For more information and to register for free entry visit www.emergencyuk.com.
