Hospital Evacuation Aids

[lingmoor]

Can any hospital Fire Safety Advisors please tell me if you use Evac Aids ie evac chairs, ski sheets/pads.
 I understand the theory of Progessive Horizontal Evacuation so my question is purely if you had to get patients down the stairs. I also understand that ski sheets go under every mattress, but if you have the ski pads, how many do you have? do all wards have them or just certain targetted wards? and how many per ward?


Thanks and sorry for so many questions! 

[jakespop]

Following the report from the "5 fires in London Hospitals" we have been asking similar questions at my trust. The quick answer is that we do not have any aids at all within patient care areas. This is something which now may change with all the knock on associated  training issues.

[lingmoor]

cheers jakespop....i can't see in the report into those London fires why they had to evacuate outside....they had a PHE policy so I assume they had adequate compartmentation....probably because in was in the roof of the Royal Marsden