LiveBetter has established a pop-up Pfizer vaccination clinic in Orange this week to help provide priority groups and their families with more access to vaccines, a timely move as the COVID-19 crisis worsens across the state.
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LiveBetter's clinic in Orange began administering Pfizer vaccines at noon on Monday and will continue doing so all week, with Aspen Medical providing the necessary number of vaccines and assisting with the vaccination process.
The clinic isn't restricted to LiveBetter customers either, chief executive officer Natalie Forsyth-Stock said.
It's about helping the community and giving those priority groups and vulnerable people more access to vaccines.
- LiveBetter CEO Natalie Forsyth-Stock
"We've opened this clinic up to anyone in the community with a disability and their families as well, along with our staff and their families. We've also opened it up to other disability and aged-care providers as well," she explained.
"It's about helping the community and giving those priority groups and vulnerable people more access to vaccines so we didn't want to restrict it to LiveBetter customers, especially now with everything that is happening in Sydney."
LiveBetter ran similar clinics in Bathurst and Dubbo last week, Ms Forsyth-Stock said, explaining the initiative was designed to alleviate pressure amid the slower-than-expected roll-out of vaccines to those vulnerable community groups.
"We had seen a few similar providers doing this in metropolitan areas so we approached the Department of Health and they were quite quick in responding, it's taken less than a month to set everything up," she said.
"Aspen Medical is providing the vaccines and are on site to administer them while we're organising everything from the logistical side of things, our Transition To Work team is also helping with that which is a nice element for us."
Ms Forsyth-Stock explained the clinic is Pfizer specific and despite limited stocks of that vaccine nation-wide, supply won't be an issue for the week-long clinic, which will run from 9.30am until 5pm through until Friday afternoon.
"At this stage the clinic will only run through until the end of this week because of all the logistics involved, and needing to fit in with Aspen Medical's capacity, we're very thankful they've be able to assist," she said.
"They will be returning in three weeks to make sure everyone who is vaccinated during this week receives their second dose of the vaccine as well, to make sure they're safe.
The clinic will run at the LiveBetter Community Connection Centre with bookings essential, to book people can call 1800 580 580 or email COVID19@livebetter.org.au.
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