Establishes techniques for improving and maintaining resilience for NHS-funded organizations that build on the activities that are already in progress within the organization. This: - provides a generic framework for a resilience programme, incorporating the principles of integrated emergency management (IEM); - promotes a consistent approach to, and understanding of, resilience; - defines and demonstrates the importance of resilience in the context of health; - provides tangible and practical methods for applying resilience principles to all NHS-funded organizations; - identifies the BCM processes and the statutory and policy framework that enable health economies to respond to, and recover from, disruptions; - highlights the relationship between the commissioning and the provision of healthcare services in the context of resilience; and - provides guidance for the implementation of resilience.