APPENDIX B:
MEDICAL AND FIRST AID FACILITIES: PROCEDURE IN AN EMERGENCY
1. The Medical Room is in the House of Commons next door to the Members' Families Waiting Room at the north-west corner of the Lower Waiting Hall (just off the Central Lobby).
2. A Nurse is on duty in the Palace of Westminster on weekdays as follows: On sitting days: Monday to Thursday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday 9 a.m. to rising of the House (whichever House rises later) or 3 p.m., whichever is the earlier. On non-sitting days: As required. Details of availability may be obtained from Security Control (extension 5311). 3. The Nurse may always be contacted during duty hours either in the Medical Room (extension 5103) or by means of her pager through Security Control (extension 5311).
4. Certain members of staff of both Houses hold current First Aid Certificates. They are listed on the green sheets in the front of the Palace of Westminster internal telephone directory. Some Police Officers and Security Officers are likewise qualified. All firefighters are trained in first aid.
5. Certain Members of the two Houses of Parliament are qualified medical practitioners and, when in the precincts, are normally available to help with emergencies. It may, however, take some time to locate one of them. A call for an ambulance (see paragraph 6) may well be the quickest means of obtaining professional medical assistance. On sitting days the closed circuit television annunciator system may be used by Security Control to contact a doctor from 10 a.m. until the rising of the House.
6. In the event of an ambulance being required, Security Control (extension 3333) must be notified. They will make the necessary arrangements and also page the Nurse.
7. Defibrillators are located in Peers Lobby, Millbank House and 7 Old Palace Yard and may be used in emergencies by medical personnel and trained members of staff, who include all attendants and doorkeepers.
8. There is an unstaffed First Aid Room on the Ground Floor of Millbank House (Room 45). There are First Aid boxes in the following locations: Palace of Westminster Ground Floor Peers' Entrance Police Room Peers' Changing Room Official Black Box Outside Staff Superintendent's Office Chancellor's Gate Main Kitchen (2) Chef's office and West wall Barry Room Kitchen Chef's room Outside Committee Room G Mezzanine Floor South-East Tower Outside Attendants' Office CM2/01 Principal Floor Lord Chancellor's Enquiries Prince's Chamber Unlocked cupboard (Temporal Side) Peers' Lobby Attendants' Office Peers' Lobby Doorkeepers' Office First Floor West Front Cross Corridor Opposite Room 4 West Front Outside Room 32 West Front Cross Corridor(South) Outside Room 36 Committee Corridor Above drinking fountain Committee Corridor Outside Lift 13 Second Floor West Front Outside Lift 96 near Room 2 Harcourt Lift 95 Swing Door Crown Office C2/12 Lift 13 Law Lords Office Third Floor Hansard Office South Return Outside S3/01 Outside S2/01 Black Rod's Garden Pass Office 1 The Abbey Garden Near main entrance 7 Old Palace Yard Near main entrance Millbank House Ground Floor Near Room 62 Room 45 [First Aid room] Room 36 [security officers' post] First Floor Opposite Lift 89 Second Floor Opposite Lift 89 Near Room 262 Third Floor Opposite Lift 89 Fourth Floor Opposite Lift 89 Near Room 465 Fifth Floor Opposite Lift 89 Near Room 564 Sixth Floor Opposite Lift 89 Seventh Floor Near Room 737
Stretchers and wheelchairs
9. A stretcher and a carrying chair are available at Brass Gates in the Peers' Lobby. There are wheelchairs near the Peers Entrance in the cloakroom.
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