BCM Industry Guide Series: Hospitals

An Industry Guide to Business Continuity Management for Hospitals

Business continuity management is a holistic management process that identifies potential impacts of threats and develops response plans.

The key objective is to increase an organisation's resilience to business disruptions and minimise such disruptions' effects. This is exceptionally crucial to any medical or healthcare facility supporting life-threatening casualties.

infrastructures, business operations within hospitals, and supply chain processes.

Applying the BCM Planning Methodology results in a response and recovery plan that minimises threats' debilitating impact and allows the continuity of various business processes.

ISBN: 978-981-11-0432-9 Published Year: 2019 (1st Version Available for Internal Training Only)

An Industry Guide to Business Continuity Management for Hospitals

This handbook is intended to be a reference written explicitly concerning implementing a BC Plan and procedures, a BCM program, and an ISO22301 BCMS for the hotel industry.

Business Continuity is an evolving art. It is relatively new compared to well-established practices such as law and accounting and is subject to dynamic technology and business changes in the 21st century. This handbook will highlight common and vital aspects of BCM and provide detailed elaboration on ISO 22301. It will also not delve into detailed project management aspects of implementing a BC Plan. Organizations intending to do so should enlist proper expertise before embarking on their BC projects or pursue further reading from the author’s BCM Series of books.

This handbook's approach is to present a series of phases based on the BCM planning methodology. These phases are cross-referenced closely with the stage within Clause 8—Operations of the ISO 22301 standard. Completing the deliverables in each phase within the BCM planning methodology will result in formulating and implementing the BC plan and procedures.

This book consolidates assorted practices and critical ideas of BCM into a single location. It attempts to clarify and link some of these practices and ideas, thereby providing practitioners with a better overview of BCM and ISO 22301.

The main steps are delineated as a significant part of the BCM Planning Methodology. These measures should be viewed as typical undertakings. They are not universal activities that must be accomplished and should not be strictly performed by the sequence presented. Examples are provided throughout the handbook to explain the tasks to be undertaken. The examples are not meant to be used as audit requirements.

The content of the book is to accomplish the following:

• Describe the content of a typical BCM Planning Methodology.
• Analyse and define the threats to BC in the organization. 
• Prioritize threats and their potential risk impact.
• Identify critical business functions and processes.
• Determine BC recovery options and strategy.
• Implement a response to ensure business continuity.
• Define how to exercise, test and maintain the BC Plan and procedure.
• Utilize the best practice techniques contained in ISO 22301.

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