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23 August 2021
Revamp of vaccination centre done within 24 hours Congratulations to the Canterbury DHB teams, who within a 24-hour period, revamped the Orchard Rd vaccination centre to increase its capacity and maximise efficiency. This was a concerted effort by an amazing team to remodel the site, says Service Improvement Lead for Canterbury Initative Carol Limber. “Following the recent mass vaccination event in Auckland, Nurse Consultant Immunisation Carol McSweeney and COVID-19 Vaccination Events Lead Satish Mistry visited the Auckland site to examine their flow and understand how we could bring their lessons learned back to our sites to create a hybrid model and improve our capacity and flow.
“Building on work done at The Princess Margaret Hospital and from modelling carried out by Planning and Funding’s Paul Mollard, we created a duel-pod vaccinating model to improve flow throughout the centre and reduce average vaccination times down to approximately three minutes from six minutes.” As a result of this work, the Orchard Road vaccination centre was remodelled to maximise its use and throughput. “In essence, this included increasing the number of pods from 10 to 24, completely moving the reception and checkin area to improve flow, and restructuring the waiting area and observation area,” she says.
The revamped Orchard Rd Vaccination Centre
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