What contingency plan does the UK have for pandemic flu?
Answer The National Framework is one of the first pandemic flu frameworks for cross government joint planning published by any European country. It recognises that a pandemic would have significant social and economic impacts as well as its serious effect on the health of the population. Joint and integrated plans are therefore critical to mitigating its overall effect and this joint guidance is a further major step in developing, improving and maintaining UK preparedness. Whilst much of the guidance material it contains was already available from various published sources, the Framework brings that together for the first time to provide a national blueprint for the UK’s response and to assist planners by providing standard assumptions and presumptions that can be used across all sectors.
