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High levels of electronic recording of vaccinations in AIR from pharmacy Written by Kate McDonald on 12 July 2021. The first report into pharmacists’ immunisation reporting practices in Australia shows there are high levels of electronic submission of vaccination data to the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR), but there more could be done to increase uptake of automated software. The National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS) report comes as the reporting of vaccinations funded on the National Immunisation Program (NIP) became mandatory on July 1....

Peter McIntyre | WAtoday Dismiss Peter McIntyre Peter McIntyre is a former director of the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, a professor at the universities of Sydney and Otago and sits on the World Health Organisation’s strategic advisory group of experts for vaccines. Opinion

Date Time NSW spearheads key COVID-19 vaccine research ​A leading group of NSW experts will pioneer Australia-first research to inform vaccine policy in the state and beyond. The Vaccine, Infection and Immunology (VIIM) Collaborative Research Group will receive more than $4.5 million in funding from the NSW Government over three years to study the clinical and immunological responses to COVID-19 vaccines in NSW recipients. VIIM brings together the leading vaccine, infection and immunology researchers and practitioners in NSW. It incorporates expertise from two universities, four medical res...

Because NSW has not been heavily exposed to the virus, the state is in a unique opportunity to study COVID-19 vaccines, taking on the “trickiest questions”, such as how it compares with immunity from infection and whether boosters are needed.

Doctors group’s new chief says Australians have fallen victim to collective complacency and there had been a missed opportunity for better education about vaccines.