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Exercise programme

The Ministry of Health coordinated an Exercise Programme in 2006/07 consisting of two major exercises. The Exercise Programme aimed to thoroughly assess New Zealand’s plans for responding to a pandemic.

This section contains information on the Exercise Programme:

• Background and objectives
  
  
• Newsletters
  
  
• Exercise Cruickshank
  
  
• Report on Exercise Cruickshank: October 2007
  Exercise Cruickshank was a whole-of-government influenza pandemic exercise led by the Ministry of Health. The exercise was held over 5 days in May 2007. Exercise Cruickshank was the largest exercise of its kind to be conducted. It practiced the four stages of a pandemic response across more than 40 government agencies at local, regional and national levels in New Zealand.
  
  
• Report on Exercise Makgill: November 2006
  This report identifies findings from Exercise Makgill that relate to the Ministry of Health, District Health Boards, ESR, and other health sector participants.
  
  Report on Exercise Makgill: November 2006 (Word, 5 MB)
  Report on Exercise Makgill: November 2006 (Compressed file, 1 MB)
  Report on Exercise Makgill: November 2006 (PDF, 202 KB)

Page last updated: 1 November 2007