Emergency Planning

How GIS is support NHS Emergency Planning in the South West

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1. Trevor Foster GIS Manager NHS South West Commissioning Support How GIS is supporting NHS Emergency Planning in the South West
2. HealthGIS Maps • How GIS supports NHS Emergency Planning in the South West, particularly the flooding on the Somerset levels during the winter • HealthGIS on-line mapping portal development, using Cadcorp Web Map Layers
3. SWCS - GIS and Mapping Service • Formerly Avon IM&T Consortium - moved to South West CSU in April 2013 • Supporting NHS; Avon Health Authority – Primary Care Trusts – Clinical Commissioning Groups since 1995 • Ordnance Survey OpenData & PSMA (2010/11) • Ordnance Survey Licensed Partner – May 2014 • Growth in demand from wider NHS • Developed team of GIS analysts/developers • Development of HealthGIS Maps (on-line mapping portal)
4. • Bristol, North Somerset, South Glos, Somerset CCGs • NHS England Area Team (Bristol, North Somerset, Somerset, South Gloucestershire) • Other Area Teams – East Anglia (Serco), Shropshire & Staffs • Strategic Clinical Network (SW) – formerly Avon, Somerset, Wilts + Peninsula, Dorset, 3 Counties (Glos) cancer networks • Public Health depts in Local Authorities – Avon, Wiltshire, Dorset • Mental Health Trust (NW London) • Community Health – Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Sirona Care & Health (Bath) • Primary Care Commissioning (PCC) • Ad-hocs; Hospital Trusts, BBC Children in Need, NHS Scotland Customers
5. HealthGIS maps – online portal • First version developed in 2010 - still in use • Cadcorp GeognoSIS, Web Map Viewer – Requires component installations and configuration on client PC • New Cadcorp environment released in 2013; Web Map Layers – No component installation – Any browser – Faster and easier to use
6. HealthGIS maps – online portal • Business case; the cost of the Web Map layers software would be less than cost of IT support for community users • Web Map Layers implemented end 2013, administrator training January 2014 • Plan to migrate existing projects during 2014 • An initial candidate for migration – “Emergency Planning” project • Initial development in January and then “tried it out” on the Emergency Planning Team. They found it so useful to support work around Somerset levels flooding, they’ve been using it since
7. Supporting Emergency Planning “The SWCSUs HealthGIS system was an invaluable element of the NHS response to the Somerset Floods providing a simple but efficient means of identifying flooded and at risk areas and cross checking these with vulnerable patients and health assets” Simon Steele NHS England Emergency Planning Team
8. Inter-agency collaboration • Within the Tactical Coordinating Group (Blue-light services, LA, NHS, Environment Agency, Red Cross, Military) • Maps of at risk postcodes shared (GPs, Somerset Community Partnership, A&E Hospital) as we were the first to produce the information • Also identified other agency assets (e.g. electricity sub stations in these areas) • Able to share data with other agencies in a visual, easy to understand format
9. Demonstrate example scenarios 1. Identify and evacuate ‘at risk’ properties 2. Water mains failure – search for potentially affected health assets; GP surgeries, Care Homes, Minor Injuries Unit http://nww.healthgis.nhs.uk/ http://nww.healthgis.nhs.uk/wmlmaps/EmergencyPlanning/
10. • HealthGIS welcome page • Open project “Emergency Planning” HealthGIS online mapping portal
11. • Alerts provided by Environment Agency • Search for Postcode/address * • Search by placename, service site name Properties at risk of flooding
12. • Zoom to location • About this location * • Configured for chosen areas: • NHS areas; CCG, Area Team, GP practice • Experian Mosaic group and type – “provides an understanding of the types of property/people” Properties at risk of flooding
13. • Map Layers • Environment Agency Flood Zone 3 (WMS) • Layer Information * (metadata) Properties at risk of flooding
14. • Somerset flooding February 2014 (from OpenStreetMap) Properties at risk of flooding
15. • Zoom to location (large scale) • Properties/postcodes cross-referenced with other NHS agencies (GPs, community health) • Identify vulnerable population or patients with healthcare needs Properties at risk of flooding
16. • Additional reference layers • Experian Mosaic Properties at risk of flooding
17. • Map Feature Information • Group D “Successful professionals living in suburban or semi-rural homes” Properties at risk of flooding
18. • Additional reference layers • Experian Mosaic • Map feature information • Group M “Elderly people reliant on state support” Properties at risk of flooding ~500m
19. • Additional reference layers • Postcode polygons • Greyscale basemap Properties at risk of flooding
20. • Additional reference layers • Census (Output Area) population statistics • AddressBase property information, incl. property type, UPRN Properties at risk of flooding
21. • Electricity sub-station • NHS team notified Western Power • New layer from AddressBase, filtered by class “CU01” Properties at risk of flooding
22. “patients requiring chemotherapy who needed boat transport to get them to hospital” “a patient who required an electrical hoist in an area at risk of power cuts, which required a generator to be delivered” “the system even worked on a 3G connection using a mobile phone as a hotspot connection” Results/Outcomes from NHS Emergency Planning Team
23. • Risks of losing water supply, further flooding • All healthcare services layers • ‘eyeballing’ revealed assets at risk included; GP surgeries, Care Homes, a Minor Injuries Unit Risk of Water Mains Failure
24. • Langport area • Contact details information Risk of Water Mains Failure
25. • Query map objects • Spatial and attribute queries • Electricity sub-stations in flood area • Export to CSV file Risk of Water Mains Failure
26. • Annotate the map • Draw polygon and text • Print map • Print to PDF service Risk of Water Mains Failure
27. • Layered PDF • Legend • Scale bar
28. Future Development • Expanding the project for other scenarios (e.g. traffic accidents, pollution, pandemic disease, UXB…) – Emergency Treatment Centres – Accessibility to all Hospitals (drive-time and blue-light travel times) – Locations of Mass Casualty Vehicles – Locations of Emergency Dressing Packs – Motorway junctions, other possible evacuation sites – Pandemic Flu Prophylaxis Centres (including using GIS analysis to identify optimum locations) – Key infrastructure (e.g. Hinkley Point nuclear power station) – Mental Health inpatient facilities • Add layer of patient locations (with appropriate security) for immediate access to relevant patient information in impacted areas, e.g. “Vulnerable people”
29. • Further information? • Contact us at trevor.foster@swcsu.nhs.uk or GIS.Team@swcsu.nhs.uk Telephone: 0117 9002490 • Visit our website: http://www.healthgis.nhs.uk http://nww.healthgis.nhs.uk (NHS staff only)