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Speaker 1: This week marks the start of the Phase one B

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Speaker 1: of the COVID nineteen vaccine rollout. Around six million Australians

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Speaker 1: will be eligible as part of this stage of the

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Speaker 1: vaccine rollout. But how is it going in the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 1: We'll to find out more. We've got Robin Cahill, who's

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Speaker 1: from the Palmerston Superclinic on the line now. Robin, good

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Speaker 1: morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Matt, Good morning to all of your listeners.

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Speaker 1: Robin, thank you for taking the time to chat to

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Speaker 1: us this morning. As I mentioned, phase one B of

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Speaker 1: the COVID nineteen vaccine rollout commenced on Monday. How has

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Speaker 1: the first few days been for you guys at the clinic.

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Speaker 2: Well, for us, it's been about preparing for the vaccination

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Speaker 2: program because we are also required at the same time

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Speaker 2: to continue to provide services to people who are suffering

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Speaker 2: so we like symptoms in our respiratory clinics, so it's

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Speaker 2: been a little bit of a balancing act to get

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Speaker 2: the mixed writ in terms of providing that service and

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Speaker 2: the vaccination service. So our first vaccine clinic is tomorrow

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Speaker 2: and it is looked solid. So we've got sixty people

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Speaker 2: booked in for tomorrow afternoon, coming for their first kind

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Speaker 2: of vaccination. So we're very excited to see territories embracing

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Speaker 2: this program.

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Speaker 1: How has that balance been, I mean, it must be

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Speaker 1: tough for you and so many other gps or anywhere

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Speaker 1: that is still a functioning health clinic or health business.

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Speaker 1: It's a new added task and the demand we know

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Speaker 1: is high. Have you guys had to employ extra staff.

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Speaker 1: I imagine the staff you do have have had to

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Speaker 1: go additional training as well.

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Speaker 2: Well. There certainly has been some additional training for this

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Speaker 2: vaccination program, and generically the view from our team is

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Speaker 2: that really they want to approach it. There's no different

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Speaker 2: to any other vaccination program. It's something that all general

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Speaker 2: practices do quite regularly, and their services are set up

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Speaker 2: to be able to do that efficiently and effectively. I

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Speaker 2: think the issue is that because of the additional monitoring

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Speaker 2: and the additional concerns that have been raised in the

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Speaker 2: community to make sure that everybody's very well informed about

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Speaker 2: what the vaccination process is. The fact that everyone has

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Speaker 2: to have two vaccinations, which is quite different from our

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Speaker 2: standard vaccination programs, has probably made it a little more tricky,

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Speaker 2: but certainly the practices we've talked to and certainly from

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Speaker 2: the work that we're doing here is that we've been

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Speaker 2: able to integrate it fairly easily into what we're ordinarily doing.

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Speaker 2: And our patients are looking to have that vaccination process

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Speaker 2: provided to them as quickly and efficiently as possible, and

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Speaker 2: I think all of the gps are involved are going

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Speaker 1: Robin, do you know who's eligible as part of the

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Speaker 1: Phase one B rollout.

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Speaker 2: There's certainly the eligibility criteria, so anyone over seventy is

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Speaker 2: eligible to have the vaccine. People who are frontline workers

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Speaker 2: who weren't part of the initial one A rollout, So

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Speaker 2: for example, people who are working in a hospitals who

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Speaker 2: weren't working at NED, they're now eligible to get the vaccine.

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Speaker 2: People with chronic conditions, people such as diabetes, chronic airways,

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Speaker 2: obstructive disease, people who might have been undergoing cancer treatment,

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Speaker 2: basically that group who are at high risk of becoming

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Speaker 2: very unwell should they be exposed to COVID.

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Speaker 1: And so, Robin, you mentioned you kick off at the

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Speaker 1: clinic tomorrow. How many vaccines will you be able to

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Speaker 1: administer per day?

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Speaker 2: So when we are fully functional, So tomorrow, we're just

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Speaker 2: really wanting to make sure that everything that we've put

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Speaker 2: expect it should, so that as we progress this down

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Speaker 2: in the next two to three weeks, we're anticipating that

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Speaker 2: we'll be able to offer between two to three hundred

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Speaker 1: There, and I imagine the phone lines have probably been

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Speaker 1: running red hot of people both inquiring if they can

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Speaker 1: bit more INFI imagine that that demand will be there

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Speaker 2: I think as more people get the vaccine and more

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Speaker 2: We're certainly going to be running an awareness campaign over

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Speaker 2: the next couple of weeks to make sure people understand

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Speaker 2: for them to come and have the vaccine. Given I

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Speaker 2: last few weeks, of course some concern to some people,

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Speaker 2: but now that they're seeing it rolling out, now that

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Speaker 2: so vital and so critical for our community to help

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Speaker 2: us progress through what has been an incredibly difficult twelve months.

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Speaker 2: And actually, I can't we all kind of feel like

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Speaker 2: we're now sitting at the top of the hill and

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Speaker 2: we're actually seeing the view from the other side, and

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Speaker 2: we're so excited to be to be able to be

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Speaker 1: Robin, what will be the process for someone that might

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Speaker 1: be booked in tomorrow at ten o'clock? Do they have

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Speaker 1: to wear a mask upon arrival? Does it take very long?

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Speaker 1: What's it look like if we've got our listeners sitting

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's actually really quite a quick process. So no,

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Speaker 2: they don't have to wear a mask because people aren't

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Speaker 2: coming to the clean they're not unwell. It's just a

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Speaker 2: standard vaccine. That's how we want to approach it. So

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Speaker 2: basically what all happen is they'll present at their appointment time.

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Speaker 2: They'll be given some information just to double check that

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Speaker 2: they're aware of what they need to do for the vaccine.

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Speaker 2: They will be consented to have the vaccine. We'll also

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Speaker 2: be asking them to register for what's called vax trackers

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Speaker 2: so that we can actually monitor their symptoms over the

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Speaker 2: coming days after they've had the vaccine, just to make

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Speaker 2: sure that nobody has the reaction. That's a fairly standard process,

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Speaker 2: but because there's so many people being vaccinated all at once,

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Speaker 2: we've actually engaged this tool to help us do that.

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Speaker 2: They'll have the vaccine. Actually having vaccine probably only takes

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Speaker 2: about four or five minutes, but then they'll have to

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Speaker 2: wait fifteen minutes post the vaccine before they're able to leave,

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Speaker 2: just so that we can make sure that there's no

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Speaker 2: mediate reaction to the vaccine and that they're okay to

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Speaker 2: leave now. Anyone who may have a history of anaphylaxis

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Speaker 2: will probably be asking them to stay a little longer,

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Speaker 2: that's about half an hour, just to make sure, and

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Speaker 2: anyone who might have serious chronic illnesses will probably ask

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Speaker 2: just to make sure that everything's okay for them before

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Speaker 2: we send them heart.

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Speaker 1: Just finally, Robin, if there are people listening this morning

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Speaker 1: within that Phase one B and they are looking to

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Speaker 1: book in or they want more information, where can they go, Well.

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Speaker 2: They can go to our website which is www dot

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Speaker 2: Palmerston gpsuserclinic dot com. There's lots of information on there

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Speaker 2: for them. And the good thing is too, we've also

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Speaker 2: got the eligibility check on theirselves. People aren't sure if

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Speaker 2: they can simply go onto our website, click onto the

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Speaker 2: eligibility check a link and they can find out for

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Speaker 2: themselves and if they are eligible, then they can actually

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Speaker 2: book in. And what they'll find is when they've got

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Speaker 2: a book in, they'll be asked that series of questions

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Speaker 2: again just to make absolutely certain that they're eligible. And

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Speaker 2: then once they've then done that, they can select the

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Speaker 2: at their time and have their vaccine.

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Speaker 1: Well, Robin, I know it's a very busy time for

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Speaker 1: you guys at the clinic. It's like you said, we're

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Speaker 1: at the top of the hill, which is great to

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Speaker 1: hear and great to see. Myself or Katie might check

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Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks time to find out how

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Speaker 1: it's all going. Thank you so much for taking the

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Speaker 1: time to chat to us. This morning.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Matt, and thanks for getting the message out there

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Speaker 2: to people because it is absolutely critical that people get

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Speaker 2: on board with this.

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Speaker 1: Oh it absolutely is. God on your Robin, thank you

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Speaker 1: for your time.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Matt.

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Speaker 1: That's Robin Cahill from the Palmerston super Clinic there with

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Speaker 1: a little bit more information about their COVID nineteen vaccine

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Speaker 1: roll out Phase one B. They'll be getting underway with

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Speaker 1: those vaccines tomorrow and as Robin said, if you do

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Speaker 1: want more info, there are plenty of people who still

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Speaker 1: hold concerns or perhaps you're ready to go, you're in

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Speaker 1: that Phase one B roll out and you want the

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Speaker 1: jab you can head to their website, the Palmerston Superclinic website.

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Speaker 1: More info there, of course, Corohealth dot gov dot au,

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Speaker 1: or on the Anti Government website there is more info

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Speaker 1: there as well