Central Queensland, Wide Bay, Sunshine Coast PHN

The PHN works with stakeholders and supports general practices to deliver quality vaccination services, with the overall goal of improving immunisation coverage rates in our region.

• Assist and encourage general practices to maintain high immunisation coverage in their patient population to reduce the incidence of vaccine preventable infectious diseases
• Facilitate educational activities in conjunction with the Sunshine Coast Public Health Unit. These session are targeted at both nurses new to general practice and those that are experienced in the role
• Providing up-to-date immunisation resources and information
• Supporting practice staff to enable best practice in immunisation
• Developing and executing strategies for improving the timeliness and quality of encounter data forwarded to the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) and Vaccination Information and Vaccination Administration System (VIVAS)
• Encouraging effective and accurate data management and maintenance activities
• Promoting best practice in vaccine management

For further information on immunisation in Australia visit www.immunise.health.gov.au and in Queensland www.health.qld.gov.au/immunisation.