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Current major incident triage tools — DIPIMC MCQ

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Reviewing your service's major incident procedures, a colleague asks which triage tools are currently in use across the NHS for a mass-casualty incident. Which answer is correct?

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Correct answer: E — The Ten Second Triage and Major Incident Triage Tool

Across the NHS the Ten Second Triage and the Major Incident Triage Tool are the agreed tools for mass-casualty triage, having replaced the older Triage Sieve and Triage Sort. A patchwork of locally chosen tools would undermine interoperability between services. The paediatric triage tape and the CRAMS score are not the current national standards. Pearl: a single shared system means responders speak the same triage language at a major incident.

Reference: NHS England Major Incident Triage Tools