| 4 November 2025
When fewer than one in five people believe their workplace is ready for a national emergency, it’s clear that resilience planning needs a new approach. What if you could test your organisation’s ability to handle the next crisis before it happens? For health organisations this isn’t just best practice, it’s expected. Under emergency preparedness, resilience and response (EPRR) standards, organisations are required to conduct regular table-top and simulation exercises to ensure they can respond to and recover from incidents while continuing to deliver patient care.
Our new Scenario Informed Resilience Assessment supports these requirements by providing an immersive, realistic way to test your preparedness, highlight strengths, and uncover gaps before a real crisis puts your plans to the test.
Why this matters now
A recent poll by The Workforce Development Trust (parent company of Skills for Health) revealed that while 70% of people are willing to make small changes to strengthen national preparedness, fewer than one in five believe their workplace is ready for a national emergency, and only 16% say they have received clear instructions on what to do in a crisis.
In healthcare, where disruption can directly affect patient safety, this gap is too important to ignore. Focused efforts like Exercise Pegasus are showing how pandemic readiness can be strengthened, but future crises won’t all look the same. From cyberattacks to power outages to severe weather events, organisations need confidence that they can respond effectively, whatever the challenge.
What the Scenario Informed Resilience Assessment offers
Through immersive, scenario-based sessions, your teams experience realistic disruptions that put plans, processes, and workforce strategies to the test. You’ll gain:
- A clear picture of preparedness: Assess strengths and identify capability gaps.
- Actionable recommendations: Practical steps to strengthen resilience and workforce readiness.
- Expert guidance: Insights from specialists in workforce planning, resilience and emergency preparedness.
- Hands-on learning: A safe environment for teams to test, learn, and plan for the unexpected.
Speak to an expert
Meet with our resilience and workforce planning specialists to explore how the Scenario Informed Resilience Assessment can help you test preparedness, uncover gaps, and build the capabilities to handle future disruptions with confidence.