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.
Templates
Template Contingency Plan [1.5Mb] October 2013 |
Instructions on how to complete a contingency plan [230 kb] October 2013 |
October 2013 |
Instructions on how to complete LPS letter [214kb] October 2013 |
LPS Agreement DHB and Union [71kb] October 2013 |
Application for Adjudication [25kb] October 2013 |
Other guidance
HSRA Life Preserving Services Guidelines [454kb] October 2013 |
HSRA Contingency Planning Overview [526kb] October 2013 |