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People with disability are missing out on vital services as a large number of the sectors aid workers ...

Care providers have also been unable to source rapid tests with up to 20% of staff at some organisations in isolation

A plan to bring forward Covid-19 jabs for Australians aged 50 and over and proposals for state and territory mass vaccination sites are expected to be unveiled on Thursday. The prime minister will meet with the premiers and chief ministers for national cabinet, which reached an in-principle agreement on changes to the vaccine rollout at Monday's meeting. While GPs will continue to be the main delivery point for vaccinations for people aged 50 and older, states and territories are considering options to supplement the rollout through expanded state vaccination centres. As the program topped 1....

Advertisement Disability home operators frustrated by the pace of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout are trying to book their residents into GPs for immunisations as the federal government admits only 6.5 per cent of this vulnerable group have been inoculated. It came as the new military head of the government’s vaccine operations committee, Navy Commodore Eric Young, said he was focused on fixing issues with the rollout, after what one bureaucrat described as a “slow start” in aged care that was now gathering speed. Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt with the newly appointed head of ...