Immunisation
The Immunisation team’s activities include:
- Providing expert clinical advice to vaccine service providers about immunisation and vaccine issues
- Coordination of the School Immunisation Program
- Monitoring vaccination coverage and vaccine safety
- Immunisation data management
Useful links and resources
Queensland Immunisation Program (QIP) - Queensland Health
- Queensland Immunisation Schedule
- Medically at-risk individuals: Additional vaccines
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: Additional vaccines
- Influenza vaccination guidelines
- Vaccine Service Provider Information
- School Immunisation Program
- Education: Queensland Health Online Immunisation Courses
- Queensland Specialist Immunisation Service: Queensland Children’s Hospital
- Tuberculosis (TB) control Units in Queensland (including BCG)
- Yellow Fever - Requirements for Yellow fever vaccination centres
National Immunisation Program
Practical Resources for Immunisation
- Summarised Pneumococcal vaccination recommendations for adults
- Pre-vaccination screening checklist
- Pre-vaccination checklist for Zostavax administration
- ASCIA- Vaccination of the egg-allergic individual
- Rotavirus immunisation information for parents
- Following vaccination – what to expect and what to do
- Measles vaccination catch-up guide
- Resources for Health Professionals
- Q Fever Register – Find a vaccinator
Catch-up Immunisation Resources
- The Australian Immunisation Handbook – Catch-up vaccination
- SA On-line Catch-up Immunisation Calculator for children under 10 years of age
- Catch-up templates (no previous vaccinations given):
- Catch-up and VIVAS record request form
- Specific Catch-up Recommendations for Gardasil 9 vaccine
- WHO Vaccination schedules for overseas countries
- AIR: National Due and Overdue Rules for Immunisation April 2019
Vaccine Management and cold chain
- National Vaccine Storage Guidelines (NVSG) – Strive for 5
- Strive for 5 – Cold Chain Breach Protocol and how to report a cold chain breach
- Strive for 5 – Refrigerator Sticker ‘Do not turn off power or disconnect’
- Strive for 5 – Refrigerator Sticker ‘Do not turn off power before consulting’
- Strive for 5 – Refrigerator Sticker ‘Stop – do not open door’
- Strive for 5 – Quick Reference Guide - Tips on vaccine management and useful contacts
- Strive for 5 - Vaccine storage self-audit
- Strive for 5 – Checklist for managing a power failure
- Strive for 5 – Checklist and temperature chart for mobile or outreach clinics or emergency storage of vaccines
Adverse Events Following Immunisation
Immunisation Data and AIR
How to access the Australian Immunisation Register is currently is currently under review.
Questions about vaccination
- Questions about vaccination
- Why is the schedule the way it is?
- What is in vaccines?
- How do vaccines affect immunity?
- How are vaccines shown to be safe?
- What about Autism?
- Parents with questions about vaccination - SKAI resources
- Resources for members of the public
- Science of immunisation
- Get the facts
- Australian Immunisation Register
- MMR vaccine decision making aid
Immunisation Organisations
Last updated: 24 September 2019
