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English translation: Disaster-proof hospital facility
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| 12:58 Jan 28, 2011 |
| Dutch to English translations [PRO] Medical - Medical (general) / Hospital facilities | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Kate Hudson (X) Netherlands Local time: 13:37 | ||||||
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| 4 | Disaster-proof hospital facility |
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| 3 | +/- acute trust |
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+/- acute trust Explanation: Civil contingency planners in the UK use the term "acute trust" to refer to hospitals that have a duty to plan how they will respond to major incidents. While "trust" in this sense is too UK-specific for your context, you could perhaps adapt the term, e.g. "acute hospital" or "acute healthcare facility", to make it more usable in your text. -> "2. Planning for an incident - the roles and responsibilities of Acute Trusts 2.1. Core responsibilities for NHS organisations are described in the NHS Emergency Planning Guidance 2005. The roles and responsibilities described in this section are specific to Acute Trusts. 2.2. The responsibility of each Acute Trust is to plan for its response to a major incident which, because of the number or severity of injuries to casualties, cannot be dealt with as part of the hospital’s normal, day-to-day activity. Whilst a major incident is likely to be an external event, such an event can be internal to the hospital and the Acute Trust can self declare a major incident. The Acute Trust’s responsibility in planning for a major incident is to: • fulfil the requirements as a Category 1 responder under the Civil Contingencies Act..., ..." http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/... Reference: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publicatio... |
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Disaster-proof hospital facility Explanation: As indicated above in the discussion. A section or even whole hospital that is built to withstand disaster and to provide hospital services in the event of a disaster (earthquake, flood etc). |
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