Influenza Vaccinations

The Hon. E.S. BOURKE (14:43): Supplementary question: why was a GP and former AMA president, Dr Peter Ford, only provided with 60 vaccines when he ordered 300 for his patients?

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:43): I don't know the detailed circumstances of the order but I can only presume that the order was being fulfilled in a way that public health clinicians believed would provide all service providers access in the early stages—

The Hon. E.S. Bourke: But why did you say that there was no supply problem?

The Hon. S.G. WADE: —the first two weeks of the distribution.