Continuity plan prevents human tragedy becoming business disaster at the BMA

摘要

Business continuity planning covers a vast territory, from the normal type of disruption that can affect any IT installation, to the most terrifyingly abnormal disruption caused by terrorism or natural disaster. However accustomed people are to scenes in the media of horror caused by terrorism and natural disaster, when it happens to you it is totally different, says Poli Avramidis, director of information management and technology at the British Medical Association (BMA), outside whose headquarters a bus exploded in the London terror attacks on 7 July. Fortunately, among the 450 people in the BMA building - including 150 working for the British Medical Journal (BMJ), commercial tenants and a branch of the Natwest Bank - were doctors.