Casualty Clearing Stations and Rest Centres

A UK term used in the context of a major incident (disaster) for a place of relative safety, usually between the inner and outer cordons of the incident, to which casualties are taken from the incident site, where triage sort, assessment, treatment and stabilisation is carried out by ambulance staff and mobile medical teams on scene.

Casualty Clearing Station (CCS)

Focus where secondary triage, treatments and stabilisation takes place

Rest Centres or Survivor Reception Centres

Usually set up by Police or Local Authority

will provide basic welfare needs - food, warmth, clothing
may have medical and health support
social care is likely to be needed

Body Holding Area

This is different to a temporary mortuary
This is often an annex to the Casualty Clearing station and where bodies are moved

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