Two free seminar programmes will be available to visitors attending The Emergency Services Show, at the NEC in Birmingham on 24 and 25 September. All seminars are free to attend and no booking is required. The full seminar programmes are available on www.emergencyuk.com.
The Innovation Theatre in association 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 the current and future application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles;
Luana Avagliono, Head of Resilience Direct Team, Civil Contingencies Secretariat, Cabinet Office who will explain more about a digital information management service available for local and central resilience.
Meanwhile the Interoperability Theatre, developed in partnership 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.
As well as free seminars, The Emergency Services Show provides visitors with a range of practical training opportunities through workshops and live demonstrations and an indoor and outdoor exhibition. The College of Paramedics will be running a series of free Continual Professional Development (CPD) sessions, comprising 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 for inclusion in their portfolios. 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 also holding its annual conference at the NEC on the second day of The Emergency Services Show, 25 September. Entitled Dealing with the aftermath, the EPS conference 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 successful year, The Emergency Services Show is aimed at all personnel 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 at The Emergency Services Show are free. The NEC is physically linked to Birmingham International Station and Birmingham Airport and is directly accessible from the UK motorway network. 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.