The World Health Organization (WHO) will move forward with its plans to develop a set of standards and recommendations that can be adopted and adapted for the medical (care) planning of mass gatherings following the conclusion of a successful two-day consultation that was held at the WHO office in Lyon, France, in November 2023, to explore the proposal further. A technical working group will now be set up to develop and discuss an early draft of the model in the first half of 2024, with t.