New Zealand Gazette – 2001 – No. 172

Page 4211

✨ Immunisation Services Guidelines



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Adult Immunisation Services

3.1 General Practitioners shall provide the following vaccination services for adults:

Adult Tetanus - Diphtheria (Td)

Adults should receive boosters of Td vaccine at aged 45 and 65, after some injuries and as part of any transition programme developed by the DHBs and/or Ministry of Health. The vaccine is available free but no immunisation-subsidised fee may be claimed for these booster doses. The practitioner is entitled to charge the patient an additional fee for this service.

Influenza

For Persons aged 65 years or over on the date the vaccine is administered.

For Persons aged under the age of 65 years with chronic illness according to guidelines issued by the Ministry of Health applicable at the time the vaccine is administered.

A subsidised fee may only be claimed for vaccines administered between 1 January and 30 June in any calendar year, unless otherwise indicated.

Influenza vaccine is to be provided in accordance with the further terms set out in clause 3.2 below.

3.2 Guidelines for Fully Subsidised Influenza Vaccine

The Ministry of Health may from time to time advise the eligibility criteria for the types of Patients who are eligible for fully subsidised influenza vaccination.

This advice will be given through other mechanisms and not through the S88 notice. The 2002 eligibility criteria are set out in Appendix 1 to this Schedule.

Payment of Subsidised fees for Immunisation

4.1 If, in the course of an immunisation programme approved by the District Health Board and/or the Ministry of Health, a vaccine supplied by our authorised agent is administered by a General Practitioner, or by a registered nurse acting under the direction of a General Practitioner, the General Practitioner shall be entitled to receive, in lieu of any other fee that the General Practitioner might otherwise be entitled to receive under this Notice and in respect of each occasion on which the Patient attends for the administration of any such vaccine or vaccines, the subsidised fee specified in clause 4.6 below.

4.2 The General Practitioner will be entitled to receive, in lieu of any other payment that the Practitioner might otherwise be entitled to receive under this Notice the subsidised fee specified in clause 4.6 below for the administration by the General Practitioner, or by a registered nurse acting under the direction of the General Practitioner, of an influenza vaccine purchased from a supplier nominated by the Ministry of Health in writing from time to time.



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Immunisation, Adults, Tetanus-Diphtheria, Influenza, Vaccination, Guidelines, Subsidised Fees, General Practitioners, Registered Nurses