HCS reports relating to the COVID-19 pandemic (FOI)

Request

I write with reference to the Chief Executive and Director General of Health's Response to the C&AG's Covid-19 Management of Healthcare Response Review:

Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: Executive Response

It says: "The Covid-19 Hospital Bronze group undertook a reflective session on 4 August 2020. The output with lessons learnt from this session were presented to the HCS Senior Leadership Team in September 2020.

The Covid-19 Community Bronze Cell also undertook a session with their members and stakeholders as to their reflections in August 2020."

Please provide the documented outputs from the 4 August session, which were presented to HCS Senior Leadership Team in September 2020, as well as the documented outputs from the August 2020 reflective session involving the Covid-19 Community Bronze Cell mentioned above.

The response also says: "...as part of COVID-19 planning for a second surge, a tabletop exercise was undertaken on 2 December 2020 with operational and clinical managers within HCS to test our resilience and performance in the management of a Covid-19 surge. A reflective report was produced in December 2020 which included learning. This was presented to the HCS Emergency Preparedness and Resilience Group on 15 February 2021."

Please provide this report.

Response

Please see attached the presentation as provided to the HCS Senior Leadership Team in October 2020.

COVID-19 Response Team 

Please see attached the reflective report, produced in December 2020, and presented to the HCS Emergency Preparedness and Resilience Group.

COVID-19 Evaluation Report

Both documents contain the names of employees. Those employees not in senior positions within HCS have been redacted in order to protect their privacy. These redactions have been carried out in accordance with Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011.

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