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Speaker 1: MIXWIO four point nine dot com for all the latest

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Speaker 1: news and information now three sixty with Katie Wolf. Everyone

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Speaker 1: is listening. Mix one oh four point nine one hundred

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Speaker 2: Matt Hepworth with you on this Wednesday morning, the seventeenth

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Speaker 2: of March. Happy Saint Patrick's day to you all. Of course,

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Speaker 2: the three year anniversary of Cyclo Marcus as well. We'll

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Speaker 2: talk more about that a little bit later in the program.

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Speaker 2: Right now, though, the Northern Territory Primary Health Network has

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Speaker 2: today announced the schedule for the rollout of the COVID

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Speaker 2: nineteen vaccine through twenty five territory based private general practices

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Speaker 2: and three respiratory clinics. To talk more about it is

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Speaker 2: the NTPHN Chief Executive Officer, Jill Years Lead. Jill, Good morning,

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Speaker 2: morning match.

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Speaker 3: How are you?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Very well, Thank you, Jill. This is a very exciting

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Speaker 2: announcement for territory ines today. Can you tell us how

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Speaker 2: this rollout is going to work?

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Speaker 3: Yes, so thank you for asking. So the Stage one B,

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Speaker 3: the national rollout strategy, starts on Monday, the twenty second March.

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Speaker 3: That's this Monday coming and this phase targets adults over

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Speaker 3: seventy healthcare workers, Aboriginal and Torostra islander adults, adults with

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Speaker 3: a specified medical audition condition, disability workers, and critical high

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Speaker 3: risk workers such as defense, police, fire and emergency services personnel.

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Speaker 3: And as you've alluded to, in the territory, we have

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Speaker 3: twenty five practices and thirty respiracy clinics who will vaccinate

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Speaker 3: over a stage four week program. So what that means

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Speaker 3: is not forgetting everyone that the vaccine is free. That

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Speaker 3: Week one starts with ten practices and the three respiracy clinics.

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Speaker 3: Week two will start with an additional three practices, Week

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Speaker 3: three four practices, and week four eight practices. Sounds a

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Speaker 3: bit confusing, and it's stage for a very specific reason,

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Speaker 3: but we are working with them all of those practices

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Speaker 3: to support the role out to everyone's ready, Jill.

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Speaker 2: How many territorians are in that phase one?

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Speaker 3: B do you know? I actually don't know the numbers.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry about That's something I can find out and

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Speaker 3: get back to you, though.

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Speaker 2: No, no, that is quite a right. Obviously said it's

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Speaker 2: going to roll out over four weeks, and obviously we'll

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Speaker 2: start with ten in the first week, gearing up to

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Speaker 2: twenty five. Are you able to take us through some

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Speaker 2: of the general practices around Darwin and Palmerston where people

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Speaker 2: will be able to book in for the vaccine.

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Speaker 3: I haven't got that list right in front of me,

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Speaker 3: but I do know that it's on our In fact

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Speaker 3: I do. Here we go. So we've got Baykin, Palmerston,

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Speaker 3: Medical Leania, Medical Territory, Medical, mole Medical Pandanas and Cabana

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Speaker 3: are all in that first block. And there respiratory clinics

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Speaker 3: at the Palmerston GP Superclinic, Congress in Alice and Central

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Speaker 2: I noticed there the sorry continuing, All right, you guys.

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Speaker 3: I would say all of these are on the ntphn

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Speaker 3: dot org get au COVID website as well, so you

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Speaker 3: don't have to remember all of.

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Speaker 2: This, yes, gonna, that would be a rather extensive list

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Speaker 2: to remember all of those. I noticed there is a

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Speaker 3: We're working in partnership with our colleagues in the Northern

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Speaker 3: Territory Government at the moment, given that we know that

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Speaker 3: we've having our new practices coming on board in Catherine,

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Speaker 3: so there's a little bit of a conversation going on

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Speaker 3: maybe find an alternate strategy in the first place around that.

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Speaker 3: But once we know more, we'll let you know, Jill.

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Speaker 2: Which brand or type of vaccine will people under Phase

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Speaker 3: As far as I'm aware, there's a mixture of both

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Speaker 3: either and the astrosenica, but we don't really get told

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Speaker 3: which ones are coming where or when. Obviously, we know

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Speaker 3: So but we really don't know about that. When the

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Speaker 2: Okay, and I know there's been a couple of different

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right, it is slightly different dependent on which

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Speaker 3: fully aware of that based upon which vaccination.

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Speaker 2: You've received, will be the responsibility of the person getting

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Speaker 2: the vaccine or will there be some kind of a

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Speaker 2: follow up system from the GPS.

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Speaker 3: No, the GPS will develop a follow up system. We're

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Speaker 3: working closely with all of the clinics around the follow

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Speaker 3: The monitoring strategies a little bit light you have with

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Speaker 2: We heard late last week there was some concerns about

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Speaker 2: a delay in the arrival. I believe it was of

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Speaker 2: the astrosenica vaccine here in the Northern Territory. From what

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Speaker 2: you've heard that that will be ready for this role

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I've heard nothing to indicate anything different. And as

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Speaker 3: I say, we work very closely in partnership with our

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Speaker 2: There are obviously still still some Territorians that hold concerns

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Speaker 2: about the vaccines. What would be your message to them,

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Speaker 2: particularly that if they are in this Phase one B

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Speaker 3: Look, if you are concerned, please get hold of your

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Speaker 3: and talk to them about your concerns. Obviously, people are concerned,

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Speaker 3: always concerned about vaccinations. But as we've heard from the

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Speaker 3: to be given, you know, it seems to be safe.

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Speaker 3: People being asked to go ahead and get the vaccinations

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Speaker 3: hold further concerns, Jill.

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Speaker 2: In terms of the rollout at these gps, will there

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Speaker 3: That really is to the GPS concerned. However, for or

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Speaker 3: had to undergo the dedicated and specified training that is

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Speaker 3: provided for each of the different vaccines. So each vaccine

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Speaker 3: has a different training schedule and the providers will all

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Speaker 2: Okay, so obviously we see one bee rolling out on Monday.

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Speaker 2: Is a phase two after that? Am I correct in

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Speaker 2: saying that? But it's a bit later in the year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and we still don't know the details around that.

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Speaker 3: So as soon as we do know the details, will

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Speaker 2: Well, that is fantastic, Jill. If there is anyone else

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Speaker 3: They can go either to the Northern Territory pH own website,

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Speaker 3: is plenty of information on the www dot health dot

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Speaker 3: gov dot au. There's lists there of all of the

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Speaker 3: There's information for health providers too, so anyone that wants

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Speaker 3: to know more information can access that. And again, if

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Speaker 3: It's important that you get the right information absolutely.

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Speaker 2: Jill Yearsley, the NTP Chief Executive Officer, thank you so

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Speaker 2: much for answering all of our questions this morning, and

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Speaker 2: good luck with this rollout over the next few weeks.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for having me. Great to top.

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Speaker 2: Thank you bye, thank you. By now that is Jill Yearsley,

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Speaker 2: the Northern Territory Primary Health Network CEO. They're talking about

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Speaker 2: this Phase one b rollout begins next week now if

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Speaker 2: you did miss those, So, the Phase one b rollout

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Speaker 2: targets adults over seventy years, healthcare workers Aboriginal Andora Straight

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Speaker 2: dedicated booking service there that lists some of the gps

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Speaker 2: that we'll be delivering this vaccine. That includes the Bakewell

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Speaker 2: I do apologize if we couldn't get to all of

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Speaker 2: your questions with Jill, but the public of the Primary

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