New Zealand Gazette – 2001 – No. 172

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Appendix 1 to Schedule 3

2002 Eligibility Criteria for fully subsidised Influenza vaccine

a) any Person aged 65 years and over; and

b) any Person under the age of 65 years with one or more of the following conditions:

i) cardiovascular diseases, including:

A) ischaemic heart disease;
B) congestive heart failure;
C) rheumatic heart disease;
D) congenital heart disease;
E) cerebro-vascular disease;

ii) chronic respiratory diseases, including:

A) asthma, if on regular preventative therapy;
B) all other chronic respiratory diseases with impaired lung function;

iii) diabetes;

iv) chronic renal disease;

v) any malignancy but excluding basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma if the latter two are not invasive;

vi) other conditions, including:

A) auto-immune diseases;
B) immunosuppression;
C) HIV;
D) transplant recipients;
E) neuromuscular and CNS;
F) haemoglobinopathies.

Patients with the following conditions are not eligible for fully subsidised influenza vaccination:

a) asthma not requiring regular preventative therapy;

b) hypertension and/or dyslipidaemia without evidence of end-organ disease;

c) pregnancy in the absence of another risk factor."

5. Amendments to Schedule 4

The Notice is amended by:

a) deleting clause 2.5(b) of Schedule 4, and replacing it with the following:

"2.5(b) contain the date prescribed, patient name, NHI where available, patient date of birth (for persons under the age of 14 and where no NHI), patient gender (where no NHI), patient category, community services card status, high use health card status, name of pharmaceutical and dose, frequency of dose, quantity or total days supply, special instructions if applicable, and the appropriate purchaser, if it is not the


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Immunisation, Adults, Influenza, Vaccination, Eligibility Criteria, Subsidised Fees, Health Conditions, Cardiovascular Diseases, Chronic Respiratory Diseases, Diabetes, Chronic Renal Disease, Malignancy, Auto-immune Diseases, Immunosuppression, HIV, Transplant Recipients, Neuromuscular and CNS, Haemoglobinopathies, Pregnancy, Hypertension, Dyslipidaemia