The latest Australian Child Health Poll has revealed a worrying pattern of practice in Australian health care, in which some unvaccinated children are being refused care by health care providers. The poll found that one in six Australian children who are not up-to-date with their vaccines have been refused care by a health care provider...

This document is a service activity report over two years (1 July 2014 - 30 June 2016). It highlights the core service activity, as well as additional immunisation programs undertaken by the RCH Immunisation Service team.

This report was commissioned by the New South Wales (NSW) Child Death Review Team.

Introduction Rates of childhood immunisation in Australia are high and have been maintained at a high level for the past decade. Although most children are fully immunised, even small lapses in coverage can increase the risk of highly contagious diseases like measles. For these reasons, it is important to identify potentially modifiable factors that are...

The objective of this study was to explore the impact of implementation of the Public Health Amendment (Vaccination of Children Attending Child Care Facilities) Act 2013 on child-care centres in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales (NSW), from the perspective of child-care centre directors. The amendment asks child-care facilities to collect evidence of...