| Specialty | Total responses (%) | Have you read your hospital’s major incident plan? | Do you know where you can access your hospital’s major incident plan guidelines? | Do you know what role you would play if a major incident plan came into effect while you are on call? | ||||||
| All (%) | Part (%) | None (%) | Yes (%) | Unsure (%) | No (%) | Yes (%) | Unsure (%) | No (%) | ||
| Anaesthetics | 49 (66.2) | 12 (24.4) | 15 (30.6) | 22 (44.9) | 28 (57.1) | 16 (32.7) | 5 (10.2) | 23 (46.9) | 17 (34.7) | 9 (18.4) |
| Emergency medicine | 37 (50.05) | 17 (45.9) | 10 (27.0) | 10 (27.0) | 24 (64.9) | 12 (32.4) | 1 (2.7) | 19 (51.4) | 17 (45.9) | 1 (2.7) |
| General surgery | 46 (62.2) | 9 (19.6) | 8 (17.4) | 29 (63.0) | 14 (30.4) | 17 (37.0) | 15 (32.6) | 11 (23.9) | 15 (32.6) | 20 (43.4) |
| Trauma and orthopaedics | 54 (73.0) | 8 (14.8) | 14 (25.9) | 32 (59.3) | 21 (38.9) | 21 (38.9) | 12 (22.2) | 14 (25.9) | 20 (37.0) | 20 (37.0) |
| Total | 186 (62.8) | 46 (24.7) | 47 (25.3) | 93 (50.0) | 87 (46.8) | 66 (35.5) | 33 (17.7) | 67 (36.0) | 69 (37.1) | 50 (26.9) |