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.
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.
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
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.
Different states - different vacc schedules?
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