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Our mobile immunisation service conducts free immunisation sessions.
All members of the public are invited to attend the free session to receive vaccinations listed on the National Immunisation Program schedule.
- Session dates
- Requesting vaccine history
- User pay vaccines
- Gardasil
- School sessions
- Preschool immunisation
Session dates
The mobile immunisation service attends sessions in Benalla, Indigo, Towong and Strathbogie councils.
Click here for the 2012 immunisation dates:
Requesting vaccine history
If you require yours or your child's vaccine history and they were administered by the mobile immunisation service within Strathbogie, Benalla, Indigo or Towong councils, please complete the following application form and return to us via post/fax or email.
Immunisation record retrieval application form
User pay vaccines
The following vaccines may not be available free of charge for all groups and may be purchased:
- Adult Hepatitis B vaccine
- Influenza (for people aged under 65 years or not in an at risk group)
- Adult Hepatitis A vaccine
- Combined adult Hepatitis A and B vaccine
- Chicken pox vaccine
- Pneumococcal vaccine for children over two years of age or for adults aged under 65 years who are not in an at risk group
- Meningococcal C vaccine (for people born before January 1, 2002)
Should you wish to purchase any of the vaccines listed above please contact the mobile immunisation service prior to attending the session.
All vaccines administered to children under the age of seven years are reported to the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register (ACIR).
Click on the questionnaire below which will help you and your nurse decide if you need any vaccines.
Adult immunisation questionnaire
Gardasil vaccine
The Gardasil catch-up program for females aged 14 (year eight) to 26 years has now ceased. Now only females in year seven will continue to receive the vaccine at school for free.
The Gardasil vaccine protects against four strains of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV).There are many strains of HPV, only some of which can cause cancer. HPV strains 16 and 18 cause around 70 per cent of all cervical cancers. The Gardasil vaccine is effective in protecting females from the above strains of HPV responsible for causing cervical cancer if individuals are vaccinated before they are infected with them.
The Gardasil vaccination program consists of three doses of the vaccine over a period of six months.
HPV vaccination will not prevent all cases of cervical cancer, nor pre-cancerous cervical lesions. This means that all women aged 18 to 69 who have ever been sexually active, whether vaccinated or unvaccinated, should have regular cervical screening by pap smears.
School immunisation
Each year, the mobile immunisation service visits schools in Beechworth, Benalla, Corryong, Eurora, Rutherglen, Tallangatta and Yea/Alexandra.
Year seven students
- Hepatitis B - two-dose course
- Chicken pox
- Gardasil (girls only) - three-dose course
Year 10 students
- Boostrix vaccination - Booster offering protection against Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis (Whooping Cough)
These vaccines are not recommended to students who have been previously vaccinated against the diseases or in the case of chicken pox, who have had the disease.
Letters and immunisation consent cards are sent home with the child via the school prior to immunisation sessions.
If students are absent when the council attends the school to conduct vaccinations or if the letter and consent card does not reach the parents, then the vaccination the student missed may be administered at one of the council's mobile immunisation sessions (free of charge).
Preschool immunisation - four years of age
The mobile immunisation service offers a preschool immunisation program aimed at children aged four years.
The immunisations offered are:
- Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis/polio
- Measles/mumps/rubella
All preschools and childcare centres offering preschool programs are visited and every eligible child is offered the scheduled vaccinations.
For further information on the mobile immunisation service, please contact 1800 655 360 or the council's health services' unit on (02) 6022 9300.
PLEASE NOTE:
If you are deaf, or have a hearing impairment or speech impairment, contact us through the National Relay Service (www.relayservice.com.au):
- TTY users phone 1800 555 677 then ask for 1800 655 360
- Speak and listen users phone 1800 555 727 then ask for 1800 655 360
- Internet relay users connect to the NRS at www.iprelay.com.au/call/index.aspx then ask for 1800 655 360
Strathbogie immunisations (98 KB)
