Health and Social Care Mass Casualties Incidents: A Framework for Planning

This framework provides guidance and policy to assist the Health and Social Care (HSC) organisations in Northern Ireland (NI) to plan for a major incident, of extremely serious proportions, involving potentially large numbers of casualties (i.e. casualty numbers that are beyond the capacity created by the local implementation of major incident plans), or other major disruptive challenges to the delivery of health care, regardless of the cause.