Version four of London Flu Pandemic Response Plan published

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Date: 17th April 2009

London Resilience has published version four of the London Regional Resilience Flu Pandemic Response Plan. The document details the ‘Special Arrangements for Dealing with Pandemic Influenza in London.’

This new version of the plan ‘follows a national review of multi-agency pandemic planning undertaken by the Cabinet Office in early 2008, and incorporates the recommendations of that review’. It aims to ‘provide the agencies that make up the London Resilience Partnership with a strategic framework to support their integrated preparedness and response to pandemic influenza’.

Download the London Regional Resilience Flu Pandemic Response Plan (PDF)

[Excerpt from the PDF]:

Version 4 of the London Regional Resilience Flu Pandemic Response Plan follows a national review of multi-agency pandemic planning undertaken by the Cabinet Office in early 2008, and incorporates the recommendations of that review. It aims to provide the agencies that make up the London Resilience Partnership with a strategic framework to support their integrated preparedness and response to pandemic influenza. This document will inform and support the development of local and organisational responses that are appropriate to local circumstances and sufficiently
consistent to ensure a robust regional response to pandemic influenza.

The document summarises key plans, guidance and procedures to allow a comprehensive overview of London’s co-ordinated planning and response arrangements for human pandemic influenza. The Plan uses an action chart approach, detailing phase-by-phase actions and outputs for organisations within the London Resilience Partnership, based around the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) six phase model and the UK’s four level alert structure for pandemic
influenza. This framework is a living document and will be revised periodically.
Additionally, at the regional level, an excess deaths task and finish group has been established to develop a strategic, multi-agency London Excess Deaths Plan to be approved in 2009. The Excess Deaths Plan will be a further component of the London Regional Resilience Flu Pandemic Response Plan and provide in-depth guidance on different ways of working with respect to funeral services, burials and cremations, coroners, death registration and mortuary capacity.
Lorraine Shepherd, Head of London Resilience Team

hat-tip Shiloh