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OFFICIAL Version October 2018 1 Operational Pressures Escalation Levels Framework NHS England-South East (Hampshire & the Isle of Wight &Thames Valley, HTV) Version October 2018 OFFICIAL Version October 2018 2 NHS England-South East (HTV) Operational Pressures Escalation Levels (OPEL) Framework Version October 2018 First published: November 2016 Prepared by: Gail King, Head of Emergency Preparedness and Programme NHS England- South East (Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Thames Valley HTV) Classification: OFFICIAL OFFICIAL Version October 2018 3 Contents 1 Introduction ........................................ ........................................ .......................... 5 2 Principles and overview of the national Framework .

Operational Pressures Escalation Levels Framework Only when all escalation measures have been exhausted and the system is not recovering will organisations act from a position of last resort in response to the most unusual and exceptional pressures to access capacity beyond A&E Delivery Board boundaries.

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