Sydney Doctors’ team of Registered Nurses and Doctors can visit your workplace at a time that suits your company.
To organize this, you can call 02 9233 3399 or send an email to reception@sydneydoctors.com.au
Benefits:
- Improve your team’s health and productivity
- Reduce absenteeism in workplace due to Influenza & COVID-19
- Help protect your team from Influenza and COVID-19
- Help to stop the spread.
How it works?
Step 1: Assess how many vaccines you need. Consider your over 65 years old workforce as they are eligible for high dose flu vaccines free of charge.
Step 2: Book a day/time that suits your company. We will send you a workplace vaccination form for the staff to fill out prior to the visit.
Step 3: On the day of your onsite clinic, the team will arrive 15-30mins early to set-up the room. The nurse will collect and check the workplace vaccination form for each staff prior to injection. The team will stay 15-30mins after the last vaccination in case of adverse reaction.
Step 4: Upon completion of the onsite vaccination, we will send you an invoice or any additional documents that you may require.
Things to consider:
- Ensure that the vaccination/waiting room onsite have enough space to allow for social distancing.
- Ensure people being vaccinated have completed their consent form prior to attending their appointment.
- It is important to have a dedicated coordinator in your workplace to be the main contact for the vaccination program.
- If you are considering to have both the Flu and COVID-19 booster, we will require a COVID-19 vaccine certificate or immunisation history to ensure that the staff is eligible for the booster.
COVID-19 boosters are not mandatory; however, it is highly recommended as it will strengthen your team’s immune system and help maintain a high level of protection against serious illness from the COVID-19 virus.
ATAGI advice on administering seasonal influenza vaccines in 2022
Updated advice from the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) on the administration of 2022 seasonal influenza vaccines is available on the Department’s website: Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI)
Key points
- Influenza vaccine and a dose of COVID-19 vaccine can be administered on the same day
- As international borders open, seasonal influenza virus may start to re-emerge and circulate in Australia
- Influenza vaccination is recommended prior to international travel
- If a person has had the 2021 influenza vaccine in late 2021 or early 2022, they should still have the 2022 influenza vaccine when it becomes available
Vaccine strains
The Australian Influenza Vaccine Committee (AIVC) recommendation for the composition of influenza vaccines for Australia in 2022 introduces two new strains to the NIP vaccines when compared to the composition of the vaccines for Australia in 2020: a new A (H3N2) like virus strain, a new B like virus strain:
- an A/Victoria/2570/2019 (H1N1)pdm09-like virus
- an A/Darwin/9/2021 (H3N2)-like virus
- a B/Austria/1359417/2021-like (B/Victoria lineage) virus
- a B/Phuket/3073/2013-like (B/Yamagata lineage) virus
Resources: https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/immunisation/Pages/flu.aspx
