Catherine Levin

The government has updated the National Risk Register with seven new risks that reflect the changing world with more than half of them focused on cyber and digital and says it will launch a national resilience awareness campaign later this year.

Undertaking its five yearly review of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, the Cabinet Office is seeking views on the impact on resilience of changes to the way that local authorities and emergency services are governed, how to strengthen the local resilience system and whether national resilience arrangements should be reworked and brought under the auspices of the Act.

As ambulance services declare major incidents and receive record amounts of calls from the public as a result of the heatwave gripping the UK, it is timely to talk to those who spend their time thinking about how to make the service more resilient. I spoke to Stu Holliday ahead of his appearance at The Emergency Services Show to find out how North East Ambulance Service is facing up to theses challenges and adapting its operations.