JESIP team seeking views on the Joint Doctrine

The interoperability framework known as the Joint Doctrine is up for review and the national JESIP team is seeking evidence and insight from across the emergency services to ensure it remains effective, relevant, and aligned with the evolving demands of multi-agency response.

The four-week consultation period, which opened on 8 June, sees the JESIP team inviting contributions from across the emergency services, resilience community, partners, and academia to shape the future of interoperability across the UK.

The current version of the Joint Doctrine sets out what response staff, and those who support them, should do and how they should do it in a multi-agency working environment. It underpins the principles of interoperability between services.

The review will consider the effectiveness, clarity and applicability of the JESIP interoperability framework including the joint principles, the use of METHANE messages and the joint decision model.

Input from services will inform the evidence and gap analysis that will shape the fourth version of the Joint Doctrine. This work is part of a structured national programme to deliver an updated doctrine that reflects operational learning, supports shared situational awareness and strengthens joint decision-making across agencies.

Feedback from services will help shape the Joint Doctrine, it is not, at this point a consultation on a new draft. A full public consultation on draft doctrine will follow in 2027.

For more detail see The Joint Doctrine – Call for Evidence.

JESIP is exhibiting at The Emergency Services Show 2026, taking place from 16-17 September at the NEC in Birmingham. You can find them on Stand CZ29. Registration is now open: sign up here.