National Health Emergency Plan - Emergency Management

Emergency Management
National Health Emergency Plan (NHEP)

The National Health Emergency Plan (NHEP) provides overarching direction to the health and disability sector and all of government. It shows how the health and disability sector would work together in a co-ordinated way with other government agencies to respond to disasters and emergencies.

Download the National Health Emergency Plan

Guidance and action plans supporting the National Health Emergency Plan
The NHEP describes the strategic relationships for emergency management across the health sector and against the four Rs (Reduction, Readiness, Response and Recovery). The following guidance and action plans support the NHEP.

All guidance and action plans are available on the publications page.

Guidance and action plans relating to the NHEP.

Guidance and action plans relating to the NHEP.

Guidance

Guiding Principles for Emergency Management Planning in the Health and Disability Sector

Hazardous Substances Incident Hospital Guidelines

Planning for Individual and Community Recovery in an Emergency Event

Getting through Together: Ethical Values for a Pandemic

Infectious Diseases

Action Plans

New Zealand Influenza Pandemic Action Plan

Additional Action Plans will be developed in the future

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Page last updated: 11 March 2009