Medium Impact. A Severity 3 issue is a medium-to-low impact problem that includes partial non-critical loss of cluster access or which impairs some operations on the cluster but allows the End User to continue to function on the cluster with workarounds.
Medium Impact. If an incident occurred which is sufficient to disrupt activity beyond a level which would allow all students to stay at the same site (for example, access to half of the clinical areas), then the school should look to support final year teaching as a priority, specialist clinical postgraduate courses and all non-clinical elements (e.g. years one and two). It may then consider running available clinics flexibly, if possible, or starting to request support from other schools either locally or nationally. The starting principle would be a shared agreement with the closest schools and then to move beyond this with the broad agreement of the closest partner schools if necessary. High Impact If all clinical areas were affected by a catastrophic event, then the priority would be to seek to locate clinical access locally or nationally for final year UG students as a first principle, followed by specialist postgraduate courses as a second priority. This may be split across a number of local schools, or distributed nationally if the closest schools could agree between them that all needs cannot be met. It may be that the suspension of certain years and courses at the affected university may need to be considered. It may be that members of staff would need to move with student transfers in order to adjust teaching needs. Review: This policy will be reviewed every two years, with the first taking place in September 2018. New members will be invited to sign the agreement on the accession of a new school to the Dental Schools Council.
