In England, the National Health Service (NHS) emergency preparedness, resilience and response (EPRR) framework provides a formal way for managing the response to the coronavirus pandemic and identifies a number of incident levels for contingency planning and just like a traffic light the escalation stages are: Green, level 1: an incident that can be responded to and managed by a local health provider.  Amber 1, level 2: An incident that requires the response of a number of health providers within a defined health economy and will require NHS coordination by the local commissioner(s) in liaison with the NHS England local…