TY - JOUR T1 - Brief commentary: are we ready? JF - Emergency Medicine Journal JO - Emerg Med J SP - 765 LP - 765 DO - 10.1136/emermed-2019-209037 VL - 36 IS - 12 AU - Robert Winter Y1 - 2019/12/01 UR - http://emj.bmj.com/content/36/12/765.abstract N2 - The authors of this paper have repeated the same methodology in assessing registrars’ awareness of and knowledge of their hospital’s major incident plan, 12 years apart. Once just after the 7/7 London bombings1 and then again after a series of major incidents including the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire.2 On both occasions, they have found that only roughly half had read all or part of their hospital’s plan. Under half … ER -