General COVID-19 resources

Coronavirus Health Information Line on 1800 020 080 (the line operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week)

Department of Health:

• Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): CDNA National guidelines for public health units
• Australian Health Protection Principal Committee

SafeWork Australia:

• COVID-19 Information for workplaces

Fair Work Ombudsman:

• Coronavirus and Australian workplace laws

COVID-19 vaccines resources: general

General information

Department of Health:

• COVID-19 vaccines
• Information for COVID-19 vaccination providers

Australian Health Practitioner Regulation (Ahpra):

• Position statement: registered health practitioners and students and COVID-19 vaccination

National roll-out strategy

Department of Health:

• Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine national roll-out strategy

Site requirements

Department of Health:

• COVID-19 vaccination: Site requirements for COVID-19 vaccination clinics

General Practice Guidance

Department of Health:

• Phase 1B COVID-19 Vaccine Roll-out: General Practice Guidance

Training

Department of Health:

• COVID-19 vaccination training program

Advertising

TGA:

• Advertising COVID-19 vaccines to the Australian public

Eligibility Checker

Department of Health:

• Vaccine Eligibility Checker

Medicare

Department of Health:

• MBS COVID-19 Vaccine Suitability Assessment Service

Reporting requirements

Australian Immunisation Reporting Register (AIR):

• Reporting Rules

Department of Health:

• COVID-19 vaccination: Monitoring and reporting side effects

Consent: forms and factsheets

Department of Health:

• COVID-19 vaccination: ATAGI immunisation provider guide to obtaining informed consent for COVID-19 vaccination
• COVID-19 vaccination: Consent form for COVID-19 vaccination
• COVID-19 vaccination: Advice for COVID-19 vaccine providers
• COVID-19 vaccination: Resource pack for residential aged care

Resources for patients

Department of Health:

• COVID-19 vaccination: Advice for COVID-19 vaccine providers
• COVID-19 vaccination: easy read resources for patients
• COVID-19 vaccination:  Aged care stakeholder kit

Communication materials

Department of Health:

• Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine campaign materials
• COVID-19 vaccination: COVID-19 Vaccine Provider Communication Kit: General Practices
• COVID-19 vaccination: social media images: aged care

COVID-19 vaccines resources: clinical

Department of Health

• COVID-19 vaccine: clinical considerations
• COVID-19 vaccinations: Information on COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccine
• COVID-19 vaccinations: Information on COVID-19 Pfizer (COMIRNATY) vaccine

Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA)

• COVID-19 vaccine: Pfizer Australia – COMIRNATY BNT162b2 (mRNA)
• COVID-19 vaccine: AstraZeneca ChAdOx1-S
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): Information on medicines and medical devices
• Investigation reveals no specific risk of COVID-19 vaccinations in elderly patients

Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI)

• Clinical guidance on COVID-19 vaccine in Australia in 2021
• ATAGI statement on AstraZeneca vaccine in response to new vaccine safety concerns
• Advice on influenza and COVID-19 vaccines
• Advice on seasonal influenza vaccines in 2021

National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS)

NCIRS:

• COVID-19 vaccines

AusVaxSafety (a NCIRS led collaboration):

• COVID-19 vaccine safety surveillance

Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy (ASCIA)

• Allergy, Immunodeficiency, Autoimmunity and COVID-19 vaccination position statement

Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)

• COVID-19 vaccine information for GPs

Royal Australian College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG)

• COVID-19 vaccination in pregnant and breastfeeding women

Australian Government Department of Health

• COVID-19 vaccination: Clinical governance requirements for COVID-19 vaccination in residential aged care
• COVID-19 vaccination: monitoring and reporting side effects
• Infection prevention and control implications of highly transmissible SARS-CoV 2 variants
• Australian Immunisation Handbook