Found: Exercise Cygnus (18 - 20 October 2016) was a command post exercise delivered by Public Health England

Found: 3 Managing Extreme Risks noted, as an example, the lack of engagement of BEIS and the Treasury in Exercise

Found: of a whole system approach to distributing PPE to health and care staff (Exercise Alice 20164, Exercise

Found: (pg. 11) Though conducted a decade later, the 2017 Exercise Cygnus report similarly finds: “The complexity

Found: pandemic preparedness and in particular a lack of full implementation of the recommendations of exercise

Found: We had Katherine Hammond saying last year that the Treasury and BEIS had been part of Exercise Cygnus

Found: We recommend that the lessons learned from Exercise Cygnus in relation to intergovernmental working,

Found: CCS ran the big exercise, Exercise Cygnus, back in 2016.

Found: The work that was done in Exercise Cygnus and in other exercises undertaken by the UK Government was

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Found: Simulation exercises such as Winter Willow (2007) and Exercise Cygnus (2016) were based on an influenza

Found:  Readiness, including lessons from the 2014 flu pandemic strategy and from exercise Cygnus.