✨ Immunisation Guidelines Continuation
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(b) Influenza for persons aged 65 years or over on the date the
vaccine is administered, and 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 issuing of a notice under section 88 of
the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000. The eligibility
criteria are set out in Appendix 1 to this Schedule.
3A Meningococcal B immunisation
3A.1 Primary Health Organisations and general practitioners shall administer
the MeNZB™ vaccine to:
(a) all children aged six weeks up to but not including five years of
age, until 30 June 2009 and
(b) any other person within a class or category determined by the
Ministry of Health.
3A.2 Primary Health Organisations and general practitioners shall administer
a course of three MeNZB™ doses and a fourth MeNZB™ dose for
eligible children who received the 1st dose of MeNZB™ prior to six
months of age, or as otherwise advised by the Ministry of Health.
3A.3 MeNZB™ vaccine will be supplied and distributed through the Ministry
of Health’s nominated vaccine distributor at no cost to immunisation
providers.
4 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.\n
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
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