Table 1.
Survey participants demographic data (N=86)
| Number | |
| Participating organisations | |
| CCG | 3 |
| Acute Trust | 64 |
| Ambulance Service | 5 |
| NHS England | 7 |
| PHE | 5 |
| NHS Improvement | 1 |
| Mental Health Trust | 1 |
| Emergency response role in the incident | |
| Operational (Bronze) | 60 |
| Tactical (Silver) | 14 |
| Strategic (Gold) | 4 |
| Support | 3 |
| Strategic+tactical | 1 |
| Operational +tactical | 4 |
| Day role | |
| EPRR | 7 |
| Clinical | 44 |
| Managerial | 20 |
| Scientific | 2 |
| Support | 8 |
| Communication | 2 |
| Major incident response involvement, times (mean, SD) | 3.0 (3.7) |
| Experience, years (Mean, SD) | 9.0 (8.7) |
| Gender identification | |
| Female | 39 |
| Male | 39 |
| Prefer not to say | 1 |
| Age | |
| 18–29 | 6 |
| 30–39 | 12 |
| 40–49 | 23 |
| 50–59 | 34 |
| 60 or over | 4 |
| Prefer not to say | 6 |
| Education | |
| Doctorate degree (eg, PhD, MBBS) | 25 |
| Masters/postgraduate degree | 27 |
| Undergraduate degree | 21 |
| A-level or equivalent | 2 |
| GCSE or equivalent | 2 |
| Prefer not to say | 2 |
| Ethnicity | |
| British white | 68 |
| Irish | 1 |
| Any other white background | 5 |
| White and black African | 1 |
| White and Asian | 1 |
| Indian | 1 |
CCG, Clinical Commissioning Groups; EPRR, Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response; GCSE, General Certificate of Secondary Education; PHE, Public Health England.