Influenza Vaccinations

835 Mr PICTON (Kaurna) (4 June 2019). Who made the decision to provide GPs with less flu vaccine than they requested?

The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN (Stuart—Minister for Energy and Mining): The Minister for Health and Wellbeing has been advised:

As with previous years, the Communicable Disease Control Branch within the Department for Health and Wellbeing decided to partially fill orders in the first distributions to ensure the equitable distribution of the vaccine across South Australia.

Information on the distribution process and the management of orders in the first weeks of delivery was communicated to all immunisation providers, including GPs, on 28 March 2019, 4 April 2019, 10 April 2019 and 11 April 2019.

Similarly, the decision to fully meet orders was made on 29 April 2019 after all providers had received their first orders of vaccine and enough stock was available to meet projected demand.'