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File photo. Photo: AFP Every district health board is taking a different approach, some sticking to the government's schedule, others going their own way. The communities along Whanganui River Road, and also Rātana, were pencilled in for vaccinations in the next few weeks. Like some other DHBs, Whanganui was opting to take mobile clinics to do small towns at once, no matter where people who lived there sat on the government's priorities list. Tomorrow, Reefton - on the West Coast - would open up vaccinations to everyone.* It was focussing on frontline healthcare workers and those with underlying health conditions but had invited anyone else in the town to make an appointment.