✨ Health Guidelines
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 73
27 JUNE 2007
Appendix 1 to Schedule 3
The eligibility criteria for fully subsidised influenza vaccine are as follows:
(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 cerebrovascular 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.
G children on long term aspirin.
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.
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