Emergency responses put into action by nurses after terror attacks

Nurses have been among the healthcare workforce rallying to help victims of the terrorist attacks in Paris.

The Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), the authority that runs the capital's hospitals, activated a pre-planned emergency response to mobilise doctors and nurses following the co-ordinated attacks across the French capital on Friday evening.

AP-HP has denied reports that hospitals were unable to cope with the pressure and were short of equipment following the suicide bombings and shootings that killed 129 people and left more than 350 injured.

Security has been heightened at the city's hospitals and hundreds of people have been queuing to donate blood to help victims.

A minute's silence was held across Europe on Monday November 16 in remembrance of  those who lost their lives. In London, all Whitehall government departments lowered their flags to half-mast as a mark of respect and to express solidarity with the people of France.

Prime minister David Cameron described the events in Paris as the worst act of violence in France since the Second World War and the worst terrorist attack in Europe for a decade.