Immunisation Program

The Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network Immunisation Program works with stakeholders and supports general practices to deliver quality vaccination services, with the overall goal of improving immunisation coverage rates throughout MPHN boundaries. Currently, Murrumbidgee childhood immunisation rates are the highest in the country

MPHN Immunisation Program
General Practice Support
General Practice Visits
Data Logging Service
Immunisation Schedule
Immunisation Handbook
Vaccine Information Sheet
Cold Chain Management
Adverse events following immunisation
Australian Immunisation Register (AIR)
Seasonal Influenza
School vaccination program
Immunisation coverage rates for all children
Practice Nurses and Immunisation
Contact
Resources

MPHN Immunisation Program

The Immunisation program: 

• Assists and encourages general practices to maintain high immunisation coverage in their patient population to reduce the incidence of vaccine preventable infection diseases

• Supports General Practices to transfer immunisation encounter information to the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) electronically

• Promotes best practice in immunisation

• Disseminates resources and facilitates interdisciplinary education activities

General Practice Support

We support general practices to:

• Maintain high standards of cold-chain management in accordance with the National Guidelines to ensure vaccine efficacy

• Deliver immunisation services in accordance with the National Immunisation Program and the NSW Immunisation Schedule

• Adopt a sustainable approach to reporting immunisation encounters to the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR)

• Optimise child immunisation coverage rates through review of overdue children and recall and reminder services

We provide practice support to assist general practice to manage immunisation schedules, catch-ups and cold chain management effectively. We provide in-practice education for: 

• vaccine cold chain management – we provide in-practice education, assessment and advice on vaccine cold chain management to assist your practice to effectively manage these biological substances.

• data management – the management of immunisation records is essential to avoid unnecessary work for staff following up overdue immunisation or parenting payments being affected. We provide education and assistance on immunisation reporting requirements.

General Practice Visits

The Immunisation Program Officers can visit practices to assist with:

• Supporting immunisation providers with information and resources

• Supporting practices to review lists of children overdue for immunisation

• Providing training regarding AIR online access

• Advice and support in the event of a cold-chain failure

• Onsite visits to conduct training on cold chain procedures

• Assistance with data logging of vaccine fridges for accreditation, cold chain breaches and installation of new refrigerators

• Data logger support and demonstrations

Data Logging Service

• MPHN encourages all General Practices to have their own data logger, however we can provide a data logger on loan if required to general practices

• MPHN data logger information sheet

• Data loggers on the market

Immunisation Schedule

• NSW Health Immunisation Schedule

• NSW Childhood Immunisation Schedule poster

• NSW Immunisation Schedule with dose numbers

• Additional Commonwealth and NSW-funded free vaccines

• Following vaccination - what to expect and what to do tear off pads (can be ordered on Immunise Australia website)

• Recommended Sites for Childhood Vaccination in NSW

• Foreign Language Terms - aids to translating foreign immunisation records

Immunisation Handbook

• The Australian Immunisation Handbook

Vaccine Information Sheets

• New South Wales Immunisation Specialist Service (NSWISS)

• National Centre for Immunisation Research & Surveillance (NCIRS) - fact sheets

• Q Fever information for GPs

  • NSW Health fact sheet

  • Q fever early diagnosis and vaccination online learning course for GPs - Australian College of Rural & Remote Medicine

• Yellow Fever information for GPs

  • Yellow fever vaccination online course - Australian College of Rural & Remote Medicine

  • National guidelines for yellow fever vaccination centres and providers

  • The Department of Health - Yellow fever

Cold Chain Management

• MPHN Cold chain management and power failure information sheet

• Strive for Five - National Vaccine Storage Guidelines 2nd Edition

• Strive for 5- Annual vaccine self-audit storage template

• HETI Vaccine Storage and Cold Chain Management online training module

• NSW Health-Vaccine storage and cold chain management procedures

• Vaccine Fridge Temperature Chart Twice Daily Log

• Esky Temperature chart template

• Moving Premises - Cold Chain Management

Adverse events following immunisation

• Adverse Events Following Immunisation

Australian Immunisation Register (AIR)

• AIR education for vaccination providers

• AIR Login

Seasonal Influenza

School vaccination program

• NSW school vaccination program 2019

• School vaccination record request form

Practice Nurses and Immunisation

• Immunisation Course for Health Professionals

• NSW Health – Policy Directive. Immunisation Services – Authority for Registered Nurses and Midwives

Immunisation coverage rates for all children

• Immunisation coverage rates for all children

CONTACT

Jacinta Rynehart

Immunisation & Clinical Support Officer
jacinta.rynehart@mphn.org.au
02 6923 3156

Useful Links and Resources

• NSW Health

• AIR Login

• Australian Immunisation Handbook 10th Edition 2013

• Immunise Australia - Publications & Resources

• MLHD Public Health Webpage

• The Department of Health - Questions and vaccination

• Australian Academy of Science - The science of immunisation - questions and answers

• Travel Vaccines (Smartraveller website)