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Elderly patients in regional Australia face long trips for COVID-19 vaccine, nurse practitioner warns
Health centres operated by nurse practitioners say their exclusion from the initial COVID-19 vaccine rollout plan is unfair to rural and regional Australians.
Key points:
- Medical practices that do not have a GP in attendance more than 50 per cent of the time are excluded from phase 1B of the vaccine rollout
- Regional Victorian nurse practitioner Di Thornton says many rural clinics struggle to attract GPs
- 1,000 sites will be included in the phase 1B rollout but the AMA wants it broadened
Under the Federal Government’s phase 1B of the vaccine rollout, only accredited general practices — defined as health centres with a GP in attendance more than 50 per cent of the time — can administer the vaccine.
Di Thornton, a nurse practitioner who runs…
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