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: Health Estate Journal's November 2010 issue included a fascinating personal account by Alan Bavis, facilities and engineering manager at New Zealand's Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB), of how he and his team kept essential hospital services going in Christchurch after an earthquake measuring 7.1 magnitude on the Richter Scale hit the country's South Island on 4 September that year. In February 2011, less than six months later, the city was hit by an earthquake of a similar magnitude, this time just 6.7 km from its centre. Here Alan Bavis, who emigrated to New Zealand in 1995 after 13 years in a variety of engineering roles with the West Lancashsire District Health Board, describes how he and his team have coped in the aftermath to ensure that the city's many healthcare facilities can continue to operate effectively, delivering first-class patient care, despite the inevitable disruption.