National Surge Guidance

The purpose of this guidance is to specifically set out: the process for the identification of current and potential adult critical care capacity and ensure a consistent national approach by which providers of adult critical care services can escalate very high-capacity pressures to commissioners and regional offices.

To support how provider organisations, adult critical care networks, integrated care systems (ICSs) and their stakeholders should act in response to such escalations and the anticipated escalation process locally, regionally, and nationally across NHSE in support of adult critical care networks , including how NHS Strategic Command arrangements are implemented should they be required.

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