The vaccine distribution and supplies are controlled by the Australian Government.
We will contact patients from our practice and patients from other practices if they are eligible and are able to come in and enrol.
Patients from Batehaven Medical Centre and Surfbeach Medical Centre will be giving us a list of their patients that are eligible which we will contact when a vaccine is available.
People in these groups are eligible for the current round of vaccine:
- People who are 50 years and older
- Hotel quarantine and border workers
- Household contacts of hotel quarantine and border workers
- Healthcare workers
- Aged care staff and residents
- Disability care staff and residents
- Critical and high risk workers who are currently employed including:
- defence force personnel
- police, fire, emergency services workers
- meat and seafood processing workers
- Adults with an underlying medical condition or significant disability
- People that are vulnerable and at high risk of contracting or developing serious illness from COVID-19, such as:
- those experiencing homelessness, sleeping rough, or in emergency accommodation
- those receiving drug and alcohol support services
- residents of residential mental health facilities
- those in sensitive accommodation including high rise/low rise public housing, supported residential services, community housing, rooming houses and others
- prisoners in custody and detainees within corrections facilities
- Carers (paid and unpaid) of some individuals eligible under Phase 1a and 1b, or of children with specified medical conditions – see COVID-19 vaccination program Phase 1b for further details
- Some disability and aged care support volunteers – see COVID-19 vaccination program Phase 1b for further details
- Travellers who have received a travel restriction exemption from the Australian Government to leave Australia
- People who have already had their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine (including individuals who have returned from interstate or overseas) can receive their second dose at the appropriate timing between doses regardless of the phase they are in.