Planning Safe Medical Evacuation of Patients and Facilities

A practical programme in medical evacuation planning for professionals who are accountable for results, not just awareness.

📍 Tunis🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points

Course Overview

Cost pressure and quality expectations on medical evacuation planning are rising at the same time. Accreditation bodies assess this strand of health and pharmaceutical services on documented evidence of consistent practice. The result is the confidence to make and defend decisions about the wider health and pharmaceutical services agenda under scrutiny. The difficulty is not agreeing that medical evacuation planning matters — it is deciding what to stop doing to make room for it. Applied research in health and pharmaceutical services consistently shows that early structure around the practice within health and pharmaceutical services reduces downstream rework. Participants come from operational and oversight roles, and both perspectives on the health and pharmaceutical services discipline are used deliberately. Work is grounded in real cases drawn from medical evacuation planning, which each participant adapts to conditions in their own organisation. It establishes a shared vocabulary for the wider health and pharmaceutical services agenda so that teams can disagree productively about it. The final session converts the week's work on this area of health and pharmaceutical services into commitments with owners and dates.

Expected Learning Outcomes

01

Set acceptance criteria for medical evacuation planning before work begins rather than after.

02

Prepare the documented evidence accreditation assessors expect on medical evacuation planning.

03

Establish incident and near-miss reporting on medical evacuation planning that staff trust.

04

Audit medical evacuation planning in practice, not only in policy.

05

Build the internal capability for medical evacuation planning rather than depending on external support indefinitely.

06

Design escalation for clinical deterioration detected through medical evacuation planning.

07

Draw practical lessons from failures in medical evacuation planning without assigning blame that suppresses reporting.

Who Should Attend

01

Hospital and health facility managers accountable for medical evacuation planning.

02

Regulatory affairs specialists handling medical evacuation planning.

03

Health information and records staff supporting medical evacuation planning.

04

Staff seconded into improvement work on medical evacuation planning.

05

Members of committees that take decisions affecting medical evacuation planning.

06

Nursing managers and clinical supervisors delivering medical evacuation planning.

Course Modules

01

Medical evacuation planning: incident reporting, investigation and learning

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The cost of medical evacuation planning and how to present it

  • Close the loop: confirm changes to medical evacuation planning improved the indicator they targeted.
  • Apply structured root cause analysis to the last adverse event involving medical evacuation planning.
  • Confirm that reporting on medical evacuation planning reaches the people who can act.
  • Confirm that those complying with medical evacuation planning understand why it exists.

Session 2Designing medical evacuation planning so it helps rather than obstructs care

  • Compare the cost of medical evacuation planning with the cost of its absence.
  • Identify the data already collected that bears on medical evacuation planning.
  • Select quality indicators for medical evacuation planning that measure outcome rather than activity.
  • Build medication safety checks into medical evacuation planning at the point of highest risk.
02

Medical evacuation planning: clinical process design and workflow

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The hard cases in medical evacuation planning and how to reason about them

  • Set escalation thresholds for medical evacuation planning that work out of hours.
  • Match staffing levels on medical evacuation planning to measured demand across the week.
  • Map the handovers in medical evacuation planning between functions and secure them.
  • Plan continuity of medical evacuation planning during surge and outbreak conditions.

Session 2Matching staffing on medical evacuation planning to real demand

  • Cost medical evacuation planning per episode and identify avoidable waste.
  • Audit medical evacuation planning by observing practice, not by reading policy.
  • Remove steps in medical evacuation planning that add effort without adding assurance.
  • Check that consent processes within medical evacuation planning are genuinely informed.
03

Medical evacuation planning: regulation, licensing and accreditation evidence

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1What patients actually experience during medical evacuation planning

  • Identify single points of dependency in medical evacuation planning and reduce them.
  • Prepare the summary of medical evacuation planning that senior management will read.
  • Rank the weaknesses in medical evacuation planning by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
  • Define escalation criteria for deterioration detected through medical evacuation planning.

Session 2Choosing indicators for medical evacuation planning that reflect outcome

  • Close out actions on medical evacuation planning rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
  • Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to medical evacuation planning.
  • Measure patient experience of medical evacuation planning and feed it back to the team.
  • Confirm the incident reporting route for medical evacuation planning is quick and non-punitive.
04

Medical evacuation planning: supply, cold chain and availability

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Investigating an adverse event involving medical evacuation planning

  • Map the clinical workflow for medical evacuation planning as it is actually performed.
  • Anticipate the objections medical evacuation planning will raise and prepare the answers.
  • Set out the decisions in medical evacuation planning that require sign-off and by whom.
  • Assemble the accreditation evidence pack for medical evacuation planning.

Session 2What has to be agreed before work on medical evacuation planning starts

  • Agree the smallest change to medical evacuation planning that would be visibly useful.
  • Identify infection transmission risks created by medical evacuation planning and control them.
  • Reduce unwarranted variation in medical evacuation planning between shifts and sites.
  • Benchmark the organisation's medical evacuation planning against comparable operations.

Choose the package that suits you

Silver Package

At least 3 people

USD1,250
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

Gold Package

At least 3 people

USD1,850
  • 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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