COVID-19 vaccine rollout scaled back after aged care homes face mess of delays and cancellations
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FebFebruary 2021 at 9:21am
Marie McNamee said the rollout was a mess and she had been left in the dark.
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Aged care centres in New South Wales are being hit with last-minute cancellations to their COVID-19 vaccine rollout due to a bungled vaccination at a Brisbane aged care home earlier this week.
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Residents say they had to cancel hard-to-get specialist appointments for no reason
The Federal Health Minister said the company administering the vaccines had slowed down their rollout
Older Persons Advocacy Network (OPAN) chief executive Craig Gear said it was critical that residents be given enough time to give proper informed consent to accepting the vaccine.
“There’s naturally going to be teething problems about having everyone ready, having residents been given the information they needed,” he said. “That’s something that we’ve been very concerned about, to make sure that older people are getting the information that they need to make that decision and are supported in that decision.”
“I think we’ll see some of the teething problems this week around getting information in time and that sort of thing to be smoothed out as we go through.”