Contingency planning

Contingency planning facilitates the provision of comprehensive clinical service during times of industrial action:

• through support of clinical decision makers
• making the best use of available resources.

Our role in contingency planning for industrial action is to ensure DHBs can:

• maintain essential hospital services, especially acute services, for the preservation of life and the prevention of disability
• keep disruption to hospital services to a minimum and facilitate the delivery of services not directly affected by the strike
• provide support, guidance and communication to staff who will be working through this period
• minimise risk to staff, patients and the community
• communicate with patients, families, staff and communities in a way which proactively informs and instructs whilst managing anxieties and information needs and expectations. 

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