The Orange general practice clinics that will be administering COVID-19 vaccines from next week have been revealed.
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More than 1,000 GP clinics, Aboriginal Health Services and GP-led respiratory clinics will join the vaccination program as Phase 1B of the roll-out begins on Monday, including five in Orange and 12 more across the Central West.
It's been confirmed Colour City Medical Practice, Orange Family Medical Centre, The Wellness House, Orange Aboriginal Medical Service and the Orange Respiratory Clinic at Bloomfield Medical Centre are included.
General practices will play a major role in ensuring all Australians who seek to be vaccinated have access to safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines.
- Health minister Greg Hunt
Health minister Greg Hunt said services will come online from Monday, March 22 with the initial stage of Phase 1B to include anyone 70 years old or over, along with more healthcare and frontline workers.
It also includes Indigenous Australians 55 or over and younger Australians with underlying medical conditions.
He went on to say those services are expected to increase to more than 4,000 by the end of April, as more vaccines are made available to priority groups in the broader population.
The confirmation comes just days after Orange's frontline healthcare workers welcomed the announcement they will begin receiving their first doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca virus from Monday as well.
"This staged scale up will align with the supply of the locally produced AstraZeneca vaccine, and as more vaccine becomes available more services will come online," Mr Hunt said.
"General practices will play a major role in ensuring all Australians who seek to be vaccinated have access to safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines.
"No-one will miss out, whether they live in a city or country town or a very remote area."
Bookings can be made online through the government's vaccine eligibility checker on the health.gov.au website. People are required to step through the checker before they are given an option to see participating GPs.
However, many GPs listed on the site offer only the option for phone bookings.
Meanwhile, medical experts and the medicines regulator are standing by the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab as safe and effective despite concerns raised in Europe about blood clotting.
The government intends all Australians to be offered an initial vaccine dose by the end of October.
Orange clinics administering vaccines from week one of Phase 1B:
- Colour City Medical Practice
- Orange Family Medical Centre
- The Wellness House
- Orange Aboriginal Medical Service
- Orange Respiratory Clinic
Central West clinics administering vaccines from week one of Phase 1B:
- Medispring Family Medical Centre (Cowra)
- Cowra Respiratory Clinic (Cowra)
- Forbes Medicine and Mind (Forbes)
- Forbes Medical Centre (Forbes)
- Loxley House Family Practice (Bathurst)
- Westpoint Medical Practice (Bathurst)
- Kelso Medical Centre (Bathurst)
- Bathurst Respiratory Clinic (Bathurst)
- Lithgow Valley Medical Practice (Lithgow)
- Bowenfels Medical Practice (Lithgow)
- Dubbo Family Doctors (Dubbo)
- Mudgee Respiratory Clinic (Mudgee)
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