The Canadian national pandemic plan [62] is framed around a set of ethical precepts incorporated into pandemic planning at the provincial and regional health level. The UK has recently released an ethical framework for policy and planning, though this has not yet been incorporated into planning documents [63] . The regulatory framework most mentioned was in relation to credentialing for retired GPs and other volunteers [33, 64, 65] , and less frequently, indemnity [36] . Although most plans include coverage of the relevant public health legislation, no country's plan included an inventory of legislation relevant to general practice that might need to be amended.