A Service of Hope following the terror attack in Westminster

18 April 2017 (Last updated: 18 Apr 2017 08:30)

King’s College Hospital Clinical Director of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, Consultant Cranio-Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon and BAOMS Council Member Robert Bentley, represented the Trust Wednesday 5 April 2017 together with three other colleagues at the Westminster Abbey Service of Hope following the terror attack in Westminster.

Rob Bentley had been on call at the King’s Trauma Centre (KTC) at the time of the terrorist attack, and assumed the Silver clinical command role for the trust. As the South East London and Kent and Medway (SELKaM) Major Trauma Network Director he helped lead the command, control and co-ordination with healthcare services across King's and associated Emergency services in response to the attack and its aftermath.

“We have exercised for such events post-Paris with an adaptation for the scale and type of injury that result from blast and Marauding Firearms Terrorist Attacks (MFTAs), indeed an exercise rehearsing for 500 such victims just one week before the Westminster incident  meant that our procedures were very well prepared on the day albeit receiving a much smaller number of patients.

I have been part of the initial debrief for London and will be involved in further planned pan-London major incident and mass casualty exercises during the summer,” he explained.

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