- By June 2017, Health should:
a. For all children, particularly Aboriginal infants and toddlers, focus its resources and strategies on improving rates by:
- extending its reminder letters to GPs from 0-2 years to include children over 2 years that are still overdue for vaccinations
- continuing to work with service providers to ensure timely and complete information is uploaded to AIR. In particular, to include GP details and new migrant immunisation records.
b. For adolescent HPV immunisations, focus its resources and strategies on improving rates by:
- revising the adolescent consent form to include service provider details
- continuing to develop strategies to improve the uptake of all 3 doses of the vaccine
- working with service providers to ensure parental consent forms are completed in full including whether a child is Aboriginal or not.
c. Strengthen agreements with service providers to include regular reporting against performance indicators for children, adolescents and at risk categories.
2. By June 2017, CAHS should:
a. consider and implement relevant outstanding recommendations from its 2013 review Improving immunisation outcomes 2013-2015.
3. By December 2017, Health should:
a. develop ways to improve immunisation rates for homeless children, children whose births have not been registered and children of conscientious objectors
b. pursue its request for access to additional AIR information from the Department of Human Services
c. consider ways to access children’s place of birth information to identity and target new migrants in need of catch-up vaccines.