National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Implementation Plan
The White house has recently released the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Implementation Plan.
Key implementation sections which may directly impact your Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Mission are as follows:
6.2.2.10: State, local, and tribal public health departments should develop relationships with hospitals and health care systems within their jurisdictions to facilitate collection of real-time or near real-time clinical surveillance data from domestic acute care settings such as emergency departments, intensive care units, and laboratories.
6.2.4.1: HHS, in coordination with DSH, VA, USDA, and DOS, shall be prepared, within 12 months, to continuously evaluate surveillance and disease reporting data to determine whether ongoing disease containment and medical countermeasure distribution and allocation strategies need to be altered as a pandemic evolves. Measure of performance: analyses of surveillance data performed at least weekly during an outbreak with timely adjustment of strategic and tactical goals, as required.
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The Pandemic Influenza Implementation Plan is at http://www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/nspi_implementation.pdf |
