Australian Health Management Plan for Pandemic Influenza

A. Decision making structures

The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) will lead the national whole of government response supported by the National Pandemic Emergency Committee (NPEC). These arrangements are outlined in the NAP, which is available from www.pmc.gov.au.

Health sector coordination at a national level

A range of committees have provided advice for the development of health sector pandemic plans at a national level. These planning and preparedness committees are described in Part 3, Section A1.

Some of these committees will continue to have an operational role in the event of a pandemic. However, to ensure rapid and streamlined decision making in a pandemic, the number and composition of the committees will be changed once the DELAY phase begins. A description of the streamlined response committee structure that would be operational from DELAY onwards is outlined in Part 3, Section A2.

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This information is current for 03 September, 2010
This information was issued on 05 December, 2008