Editorial EDITOR Nick Lipley Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3166 Email: [email protected] CONSULTANT EDITOR Tricia Scott Senior lecturer and emergency care research lead at the Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care, University of Hertfordshire EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Jim Bethel Senior lecturer and nurse practitioner in emergency care, University of Wolverhampton Hannah Bryant Resuscitation officer, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham Shelley Cummings Professional lead for safeguarding, Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust, Surrey Rachel Lyons Associate clinical professor of nursing, Rutgers University, Newark NJ Lorna McInulty Senior lecturer in emergency and unscheduled care, University of Central Lancashire Mike Parker Lecturer in clinical nursing at the University of York Mike Paynter Consultant nurse, Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Andrew Rideout Advanced nurse practitioner, emergency department, Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary Linsey Sheerin Lead nurse in emergency care at Antrim Area Hospital, Northern Health and Social Care Trust

Dealing with natural disasters Few of us will be unmoved by the images and reports from Nepal after last month’s earthquake in the country claimed thousands of lives. This latest natural catastrophe has prompted me to highlight the consensus reached recently on a new global framework for disaster risk reduction over the next 15 years.

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In 2005, 168 governments signed up to the Hyogo Framework, a global blueprint for reducing disaster risk over the following decade. Its purpose is to save lives, as well as the social, economic and environmental assets of affected communities and countries.

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Since the framework was signed, we have witnessed the devastating results of natural disasters: bush fires in Australia, earthquakes in Haiti and New Zealand, and, in March, Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu.

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In the same month that Cyclone Pam tore across the South Pacific, United Nations member states at the third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, Japan,

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We have witnessed the devastating results of bush fires in Australia, earthquakes in Haiti and New Zealand, and cyclone in Vanuatu

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agreed a framework to shape policy development towards 2030. For it to work, national action plans must be implemented and multi-sector collaboration must take place. Many nations also need greater access to research on natural disasters and their effects. The framework document is available at tinyurl.com/px3v2g9 Last month, I attended the 19th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine, in Cape Town, South Africa, which highlighted the need to mobilise emergency nursing resources in relief operations. As an emergency practitioner, you may want to consider contributing to the global disaster response effort. You can start by visiting the UK Trauma Registry, at tinyurl.com/q79zoag, and the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine Nursing Section, at www.wadem.org/nursing.html See news, page 7 Tricia Scott is senior lecturer and emergency care research lead at the Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care, University of Hertfordshire

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