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Written by Kate McDonald on
03 March 2021.
The Hunter New England and Central Coast Primary Health Network (HNECC) has added a new vaccination module to the Capacity Tracker tool it launched last year to help gauge capacity constraints in aged care facilities and general practices during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The new module allows general practices and RACFs to advise the PHN of vaccine stocks available by location, as well as authorised practices and immunisation locations, immunisers available by location, and staff and residents vaccinated.
There is “a lot of work” to be done to encourage social care staff to get a coronavirus vaccine, a care chief executive has said.
Mark Cunningham, chief executive of Heathlands Village in Greater Manchester, said about 84% of its 350 staff have had the vaccine.
But there is a cohort for whom the vaccine is not appropriate or who remain reticent.
The Government has set a deadline of February 15 to have offered the vaccine to all health and care staff.
The National Care Forum, holding a briefing to share its latest survey results, said it “appears unlikely that the target will be met across all care services”.