New Zealand Gazette – 2007 – No. 73

Page 1849

✨ Immunisation Services Guidelines



27 JUNE 2007 1849

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 73

  • (IPA) or Primary Care Organisation (PCO), Immunisation Advisory Centre (IMAC), Public Health Service, Outreach Immunisation Services (OIS) and Maori or Pacific Health providers;

  • Other primary care providers;

  • The child’s family;

  • Other Tamariki Ora/Well Child services, including Plunket, Maori and Pacific Island child health service providers and the Maori Women’s Welfare League;

  • Health services for “hard to reach” children;

  • Public health services;

  • Paediatric services;

  • Maori and Pacific health services;

  • IMAC;

  • Non-medical vaccinators;

  • Maternity service providers, including hospital and independent midwives;

  • Early childhood education services (mostly for inquiries and certificates);

  • Schools (mostly for inquiries and certificates);

  • Income support and child health and welfare services and agencies (including "Family Start" and "Strengthening Family Programme"), when facilitating a child’s access to immunisation services;

  • The Centre for Adverse Reactions Monitoring (CARM).

2 Services

2.1 Each Primary Health Organisation and general practitioner will provide immunisation services as specified in this Schedule 3.

The responsibilities of a general practitioner to provide immunisation services may be discharged by a registered nurse provided that the general practitioner ensures that the registered nurse complies with all of the terms and conditions set out in this Schedule 3 (and in particular the obligations of clause 2.1 (t)) and any other terms and conditions in the principal notice relevant to the provision of immunisation services. Immunisation services include, but are not limited to:

Informing parents and vaccinating children

(a) Responsibilities for the delivery of the immunisation programme of each child who is a patient of the general practitioner from birth to age five;

(b) Advising and informing parents whenever possible about immunisation and vaccine-preventable diseases, including pre-parental education;



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✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏥 Childhood Immunisation Services Guidelines (continued from previous page)

🏥 Health & Social Welfare
Immunisation, children, health, vaccines, prevention, general practice, Well Child services, Tamariki Ora, Plunket, Maori health, Pacific health, public health, paediatric services, maternity services, early childhood education, schools, income support, Family Start, Strengthening Family Programme, CARM