Covid-19 vaccination providers: Queensland has 1100 less administrators than NSW
New data has revealed how many clinics are offering up the jab across Queensland as a well-known GP described the rollout as ‘amateur hour’. Search our interactive to find your nearest provider.
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New data has revealed every place Queenslanders can go to access either Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccines at hubs and clinics across the state.
Ministry of Health data, obtained by Quest, reveals 1507 clinics are offering Covid-19 vaccinations in Queensland, compared to 2650 providers in NSW and 1697 in Victoria.
There were 876 clinics in Western Australia, 524 in South Australia and 170 in the ACT.
In Tasmania, residents have 135 hubs to receive the jab, while the Northern Territory has 73.
Queensland has just 332 clinics offering Pfizer across the state, while there are 723 providers offering the jab in NSW.
A total of 384 clinics are providing the jab in Victoria, while in WA, there are 229 GPs and vaccine hubs administering Pfizer.
Meanwhile, there are 124 available centres in South Australia, 83 in the ACT, 35 in Tasmania and 16 in the Northern Territory.
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The Federal Government declined to release vaccination administrator data, which led News Corporation to work to obtain the information through the Ministry of Health’s vaccination eligibility portal.
The release of data across the country comes as general practitioners hit out at the way the Federal Government determined which clinics would roll out the AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines.
Renowned travel doctor, Deb Mills said she had to fight to get her hands on approval to administer the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccination, despite a 32-year history of handing out jabs.
“Doctors and medical staff, who are professionals in this field, were refused or delayed when it came to being able to administer vaccines,” Dr Mills said.
“And yet we have clinics in Brisbane who can’t keep up with the number of dosages provided to them — they don’t have the staff to administer what they are being provided.”
Dr Mills said there was little accountability or visibility when it comes to the allocation of dosages to clinics across the state, labelling the number of facilities in Queensland providing Pfizer in comparison to NSW as “completely unfair”.
“It is the perfect example of amateur hour when it comes to this rollout,” she said.
“COVID-19 vaccine rollouts have been co-ordinated through a shotgun approach with no real reason or planning behind it.
“Why the Federal Government decided they needed to manage the rollout, when the State Government always does a great job at every other vaccination, is ridiculous.”
However, Australian Medical Association president Dr Omar Khorshid said the organisation was convinced all Australians wanting the vaccine will have had access to both doses by the end of the year.
“That doesn’t mean that everyone will have fronted up,” he said. “But I hope what’s happening in Sydney right now, what’s happening around the world, is a wake-up call for every Australian who is eligible and who hasn’t yet fronted up for their vaccine to go and do that because that is a thing you can do.
“It’s the only way for our country to get out of this situation when our borders are closed, we can’t go anywhere, we can’t do what we want, and half the population is in lockdown.”
The Federal Government’s latest data on the Covid-19 vaccine rollout revealed 852,186 had been administered by state clinics by July 25, with 3491 administered within the last 24-hour period. A total of 11.21 million vaccine doses have been administered across the country to July 25.
The Federal Health Department was contacted and is yet to respond to questions.
Additional reporting by Jordan Lewis
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