The National Health Emergency Plan:
- outlines the structure of emergency management in New Zealand and how the health and disability sector fits within it, and provides a high-level description of responsibilities held by local and regional groupings compared to those held at the national level by the Ministry.
- provides the health and disability sector with guidance and strategic direction on its approach to planning for and responding to health emergencies in New Zealand.
- provides other organisations and government agencies with contextual information on emergency management in the health sector and the structure the health and disability sector uses in response to an emergency.
Purpose
Purpose of the NHEP
The NHEP provides overarching direction to the health and disability sector and all of government.
Specifically the NHEP:
- outlines the structure of emergency management in New Zealand and how the health and disability sector fits within it, and provides a high-level description of responsibilities held by local and regional groupings compared to those held at the national level by the Ministry
- provides the health and disability sector with guidance and strategic direction on its approach to planning for and responding to health emergencies in New Zealand
- provides other organisations and government agencies with contextual information on emergency management in the health sector and the structure the health and disability sector uses in response to an emergency.