Section A: Ready to vaccinate

Section A: Summary of Changes

Version Date Section Summary of Changes

47.0 25/10/22 8.6.2 The total allowable transit time of an unopened vial at 2 previously 12 hours. -8 degrees is now 48 hours, 9.1.4 Updated information about vaccine delivery schedule 9.2 Removed ‘and security firm’

9.2.2 Updated point 3 to include follow in-use expiry on vaccine packs. Due to vaccine expiry extensions, vial expiry may have passed, but the vaccine is still viable

Section guidance

This section should be read and interpreted in conjunction with the Standards. For onboarding sites, this section should be used alongside the Ministry’ s Onboarding Guidelines.

This section provides operational guidance, including equity, site considerations, onboarding, vaccination workforce, IPC guidance, ordering, planning, vaccine handling and storage, logistics, and site closure; to ensure consistent, equitable and quality vaccination.

Purpose

This section is designed to be applicable from the preparation of a vaccination site (from the selection and setting up of a suitable site), through to the closing of a site.

Appendices relevant to this section

• Appendix A: Site checklist • Appendix B: New facility/site setup • Appendix C: Facility/site closure • Appendix D: Logistics and Inventory Management • Appendix E: NIP logistic overview/ cheat sheets