Different states - different vacc schedules?

[Arimeh]

I just took DD to get her vaccination (she was only 3 months late for it, whoops!) and after they had given her three needles, they looked in her book and said that she was way overdue for a hep b one - should have had it at 6 months.

Apparently the schedule for tasmanian vaccinations are totally different than the queensland one - and I wanna know why!!! Surely we as a country can get our act together and make every state the same when it comes to vaccinations!?!?!? I mean FFS, in this day and age with people moving from job to job, and state to state, surely we can have ONE thing that is the same countrywide?

So they felt sorry for her and said that they will give it to her in another 3 months when I take her in for her 18 month ones.

Still bloody ridiculous though

[Visitor7]

Oh wow, I would have thought they would be nationwide? How odd, and frustrating!

[~clover~]

I thought the only difference was for aboriginal & torres strait islanders, coz they were offered more of some.
No idea though, have never moved states, sorry.

[kawazuki]

they are meant to be the same. as ACIR follows one schedule and so does medicare.

acir( aoustralian childhood immuisation registra) follow the one in the current blue book, effective from 2007, so all children born post may2007 are on the same schedule.

well thats my understanding of it, and bieng an immuniser and doing my course recently i didnt think otherwise.

[Indadhanu]

I have the immunisation thing in front of me and it is a national program (National Immunisation Program Schedule), and hep B is offered at birth, 2 months, 4 months, and then either 6 or 12 months. Jazz got hers at 6 months, I think thats the usual way of doing it, but it doesn't seem out of the ordinary to wait until 12 months (they do get a lot at 6 months, so i guess some people prefer to space it out maybe?).
Funny they didn't either check before the rest were done though

[sneakysparkle]

Vic is slightly diff to QLD so maybe theyre the same as Tas??

[Arimeh]

Apparently the 18 month ones are different as well? Bahh anyone would think I just moved to a different bloody country.

Not that I miss Queensland or anything, guess things just make more sense up there!!

Oh - but the good news - they actually bulk billed for the vacc's today - yay. At least one thing was in my favour.

[sneakysparkle]

yay for bulk billing!!

[Arimeh]

Haha I thought you were going to tell me to move back to Queensland

Too freakin hot up there - was a lovely 17 degrees here today ... ahhh.... warm...

[sneakysparkle]

wasn't hot today! Its all rainy! Really crap for trying to dry nappies

[Visitor7]

Don't they normally bulk bill for vaccs? I've never paid for mine?? And of course you should move back up to the smart state

[Doing my best]

Don't they normally bulk bill for vaccs? I've never paid for mine?? And of course you should move back up to the smart state

If I go to our normal GP, we have to pay for the consult.

[Visitor7]

oh, I see. My dr doesn't charge for consultations for children under 12.

[Arcadia]

There are some variations between states wrt the vax schedule. For example NSW only gives two doses of Rotavirus, but in Vic they give three. I found this out after DD had a bad reaction to her third dose, then my dad (a GP in NSW) told me NSW has recently recommended stopping the third dose because too many children have adverse reactions. Vic has decided to keep it though because three doses offers the best protection.

Its a minefield all this vaccination stuff...

[Janie]

I don't think you should ever be charged for vaccs???? Or for the appointment anyway. I have only taken my DS to our GP for vaccs, and it has always been bulk billed, they told me they're not allowed to charge for it.......

Arimeh, don't know if it's the same (but could be, cos VIC and TAS often are) but here in VIC at 18 months there is only the Chicken Pox vacc to be done.

[Arimeh]

Is that the varicella one Janie? Cos thats what it says in my red book (which is the qld book) at 18 months.

Oh and I was surprised they bulk billed me, cos the chick on the counter said I would be paying for a double appointment (had to check out a rash - its thrush - poor DD) but doc bulk billed me instead.

[Jellyfish]

Not that I miss Queensland or anything.

[Janie]

Yup, that's it hun!