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STANAG 2249

STANAG 2249 training requirements for health care personnel in international missions

Health care personnel deployed on multinational missions under military command, and the nations that train and prepare them

STANAG 2249 is the NATO agreement covering AMedP-8.3, Edition B, which sets pre-deployment training requirements for health care personnel on multinational missions.

Edition
3
Published
2020-07-15

What it is

The agreement, not the training

STANAG 2249 is the NATO standardization agreement covering AMedP-8.3, Edition B. A STANAG is not a technical specification in its own right: it is the instrument by which NATO nations commit to implement a publication, and here that publication is AMedP-8.3, which sets out the pre-deployment training requirements for health care personnel. Ratification and implementation are separate steps under this mechanism, and a nation records both through NATO's electronic reporting tool, held in the NATO Standardization Document Database (NSDD).

What the agreement is for

The STANAG states its aim as responding to an interoperability requirement: standardizing the pre-deployment training of health care personnel who take part in multinational missions under military command, so that they acquire the minimum knowledge and understanding of working in a military setting needed to protect themselves and their patients, and to perform the work of a health professional in that setting. Participating nations agree to implement AMedP-8.3, Edition B, to meet it.

This edition and what it replaced

This is Edition 3, dated 15 July 2020, described as a full revision of the STANAG it supersedes, Edition 2, dated 14 June 2013. Several annexes carried in that earlier edition were removed because the same ground is now covered elsewhere: differences in national medical qualifications and skills training moved to STANAG 2560 (AMedP-1.6, AMedP-1.7 and AMedP-1.8), together with STANAG 2544 and STANAG 2122, and a further annex on joint and combined medical exercises moved to the AJMedP-7 series.

Related documents named in the agreement

Alongside AMedP-8.3, the STANAG names the wider policy and directive references a nation implementing it would also hold: NATO's principles and policies of medical support (MC 0326/3), its education, training, exercise and evaluation policy (MC 0458/3), the medical support concept for NATO Response Force operations (MC 0551), and two operational directives, ACO Directive 83-1 on medical support to operations and ACT Directive 75-2, the medical joint functional area training guide. None of these sit in our catalogue, so they are named here without a link. It also names STANAG 2228, the Allied joint doctrine for medical support.

Ratification, implementation and review

A nation's ratification response and its implementation details are both recorded in the NSDD through NATO's electronic reporting tool, and partner nations are invited to do the same. Implementation asks nations to consider that civilian health personnel need to acquire the military skills to protect themselves and their patients while balancing their obligations as military officers. The STANAG is effective on receipt, and is itself reviewed in accordance with AAP-03, with the result of that review recorded in the NSDD.

How we help

STANAG 2249 is a ratification agreement between nations, not a set of training or documentation requirements: there is nothing in this cover to build a workflow against. The pre-deployment training requirements it commits nations to are set out in AMedP-8.3, and that is where a mapping to what a system needs to hold would belong.

What does generalise is the shape of evidencing pre-deployment training for deployed personnel: showing which policy and directive references a training programme was built against, holding the record of who was trained and when, and producing that evidence when a mission or a customer asks for it. ComplyTrain is a documented system for holding exactly that kind of procedure, training record and audit trail, generally, not one built around this STANAG's content specifically.

ComplyTrain does not draft training curricula, does not decide which nation's ratification or implementation of AMedP-8.3 applies to a given mission, and does not stand in for the military medical judgement the training itself requires.

Which nations have ratified this agreement, and which related publications sit alongside it, is set out in the standards explorer. The tier that applies to a given contract is set by the contract and the customer's quality clause, not by us. If you are working out what a specific tasking requires, talk to us.

Standards it references

Questions

Is STANAG 2249 mandatory?

It binds a nation once that nation has ratified it, and ratification is recorded in the NATO Standardization Document Database (NSDD). For a supplier or a training organisation, it becomes a requirement when a contract, tasking or mission order invokes the publication it covers, AMedP-8.3, not because the STANAG exists on its own.

What is the difference between STANAG 2249 and AMedP-8.3?

STANAG 2249 is the agreement: it is where nations commit to implement a publication. AMedP-8.3, Edition B, is that publication, and it sets out the pre-deployment training requirements for health care personnel. The STANAG names AMedP-8.3 as the standard it covers.

Can an organisation be certified against STANAG 2249?

No. The document names no certification scheme, and it describes a ratification agreement between nations, not a scheme an organisation is assessed against. A health care professional's own training certificate is evidence of that individual's training, not a certificate held against this agreement.

What happened to the previous edition?

This edition, Edition 3, dated 15 July 2020, supersedes STANAG 2249, Edition 2, dated 14 June 2013. It is a full revision, and several annexes carried in the earlier edition were removed because the same ground is now covered by other publications, including STANAG 2560, STANAG 2544, STANAG 2122 and the AJMedP-7 series.