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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>SA Health Staff COVID-19 Vaccine Requirements</name>
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          <heading>SA Health Staff COVID-19 Vaccine Requirements</heading>
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        <name>Mrs HURN</name>
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        <electorate id="">Schubert</electorate>
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          <question date="2025-06-17T01:30:00+09:30" qonNum="47">
            <name>SA Health Staff COVID-19 Vaccine Requirements</name>
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            <timeStamp time="2025-06-18T00:00:00+09:30" />47 47<by role="member" id="6887" referenceid="a698e5b3774342a1b25d8bbef65f519c" uid="a776d48ddb2b4d57b6cacc9a630b2b18">Mrs HURN (Schubert) </by>(12 September 2023).  What are the current requirements around COVID-19 vaccinations for frontline health workers?</inserted>
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        <name>The Hon. C.J. PICTON</name>
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        <electorate id="">Kaurna</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Health and Wellbeing</name>
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            <name>SA Health Staff COVID-19 Vaccine Requirements</name>
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            <by role="member" id="4841" referenceid="b5dd6c590e5b44e38a00cc2313e6e5cc" uid="57a50f4f406440a8b865ede70f36115a">The Hon. C.J. PICTON (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Wellbeing):</by>  I have been advised: </inserted>
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          <inserted>COVID-19 requirements for SA Health healthcare workers are as per SA Health's Policy: Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening, and vaccination.<term> </term>This strongly recommends that category A, B and C healthcare workers to be up-to-date with COVID-19 vaccinations and any additional COVID-19 vaccinations as recommended by the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI). </inserted>
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          <inserted>COVID-19 vaccination policies for healthcare workers who do not work for SA Health are the responsibility of individual employers.</inserted>
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