While fire and rescue service personnel, the Government, those responsible for fire safety in the healthcare sector, the Health and Safety Executive, fire and rescue services, and indeed fire alarm and detection equipment manufacturers, must be pleased that the number of false fire alarms continues to fall, fire services still attended just under 585,000 fires or false alarm incidents across Great Britain in 2011/12. Of this total, 272,000 were actual fires, of which around 24,000 were in premises classified by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) as 'other buildings', i.e. not 'dwellings', a category that includes healthcare facilities (representing a 4% fall on 2010-2011). HEJ looks behind the statistics, and at the possibility that some fire services could, in future, charge healthcare providers that persistently report incidents that turn out to be false alarms.
尽管消防和救援服务人员、政府、医疗保健部门负责消防安全的人员、健康与安全执行局、消防和救援服务部门，乃至火灾报警和探测设备制造商，肯定都很高兴虚假火警的数量持续下降，但在2011/12年度，消防部门仍处理了全英国近58.5万起火灾或虚假警报事件。在这些事件中，有27.2万起是实际发生的火灾，其中约2.4万起发生在社区和地方政府部（DCLG）归类为“其他建筑”的场所，即不是“住宅”，这一类别包括医疗保健设施（比2010 - 2011年下降了4%）。《医院工程杂志》深入研究了这些统计数据，并探讨了未来一些消防部门可能会向那些持续报告最终被证明是虚假警报事件的医疗保健提供者收费的可能性。
