Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20741
Title: Australia's first pandemic influenza mass vaccination clinic exercise: Hunter New England Area Health Service, NSW, Australia
Contributor(s): Carr, C (author); Durrheim, D N (author); Eastwood, K (author); Massey, Peter D  (author); Jaggers, D (author); Caeli, M (author); Nichol, S (author); Winn, L (author)
Publication Date: 2011
Open Access: Yes
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20741
Open Access Link: https://ajem.infoservices.com.au/items/AJEM-26-01-09Open Access Link
Abstract: In 2009 a novel influenza strain, pandemic influenza A H1N1 California 7/09 (pH1N1), "swine flu", emerged worldwide. Australia rapidly developed a pH1N1-specific vaccine which was distributed to public health services and general practices in September 2009. Should a second severe pandemic wave affect Australia there may be a need to rapidly deliver vaccine through mass vaccination clinics. Mass clinics must be efficient and safe. In 2008 a field exercise was undertaken to simulate a pandemic mass vaccination clinic using seasonal influenza vaccination in a rural community in the Hunter Valley using the New South Wales mass vaccination clinic response protocols. The exercise identified significant opportunities to streamline operations to increase clinic capacity, reduce client throughput time, enhance involvement of external agencies, and modify clinic roles, with a resulting revision of the State mass vaccination plan.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: The Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 26(1), p. 47-53
Publisher: Emergency Management Australia
Place of Publication: Australia
ISSN: 2204-2288
1324-1540
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 111716 Preventive Medicine
111712 Health Promotion
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 920499 Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health) not elsewhere classified)
HERDC Category Description: C2 Non-Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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