Really It Seems no One At The ADHA Or The Department Of Health Can Organise Even The Simplest Register Amidst All Sorts Of Failures. What A Dog ’s Breakfast!

This appeared last week:Failure to transfer GP data blamed for vax record holes Researchers say the national register data is not up-to-date for 14% of childrenJocelyn Wright13th December 2018More than one in 10 children are incorrectly identified as overdue for a vaccine when in fact they ’re up-to-date, according to a national audit. And in many cases, problems with transferring vaccination records from GP software to the Australian Immunisation Register appear to be behind the errors — which can have far-reaching consequences for children and parents.Researchers from the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS) examined the accuracy of 905 children ’s records randomly selected from the register, which said the children were overdue for specific vaccines at one, two and five years of age.The report — the first of its kind since 2001 — found 86% of the children were truly overdue and needed catch-up doses.However, 14% of children listed as... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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