Public health nurses MMR vaccination pilot with Melville schools a success

A small pilot at Melville Primary and Melville Intermediate schools with some of our public health nurses proved successful being able to vaccinate 82 percent of kids not immunised for MMR.

I’m told the schools were really helpful in the process and together with our nurses were able to identify 240 children with no immunisation records supplied.

After the NIR (National Immunisation Register) checks the team were able to ascertain there were only 48 students with either unknown immunisation status, no vaccination for MMR, or only one MMR vaccination record.

In the end, the team were able to vaccinate 39.

Given this result, we look forward to seeing it trialled at more schools in the new year.