Occupational Assessment, Screening & Vaccination against Specified Infectious Diseases
Your patient's health starts with you.
Transmission of vaccine preventable diseases in healthcare settings has the potential to cause serious illness and avoidable deaths in patients and other users of the health system, and to impact on outbreaks beyond the healthcare facility doors. Further, it increases the cost of health service delivery and is a significant occupational health and safety (OH&S) issue. Vaccination has been shown to be a safe, efficacious, cost-effective mechanism by which such costs can be avoided.
That's why NSW Health has updated the Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination Policy.
The Policy applies to all existing staff, all new recruits, students on clinical placement, volunteers, contracted clinical staff (such as VMOs), and people on work experience.
Existing staff and volunteers will be assessed, screened and vaccinated by the AHS.
New recruits and other clinical personnel (including students) are required to provide, at their own cost, documented evidence of protection against the specified infectious diseases and tuberculosis status based on the risk categorisation of their position.
