This user-friendly site features the Immunisation Planner Tool that allows Queenslanders to quickly generate a personalised immunisation schedule. The schedule helps:

• parents keep track of their children’s vaccination dates, no matter what their age
• adults to keep up to date with vaccinations 
• older Queenslanders know what vaccines they need.

Over the next seven months the VacciDate app will be phased out.

From December 2020, the VacciDate app will no longer be available for download – however, existing users can continue to save their information until 30 June 2021.

All current users will be notified of these changes, receive ongoing reminders, and offered alternative ways to track their immunisation information.

With the VacciDate app phasing out over the coming months, the new Vaccination Matters Immunisation Planner will help Queenslanders to track their vaccination information.

For those who are not sure of the vaccinations they’ve had, they can:

• go online via their MyGov account or through the Medicare Plus app to view their Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) immunisation history statement
• ask their doctor or immunisation provider to print their AIR immunisation history statement
• call the AIR on 1800 653 809 and ask them to send their immunisation history statement (this can take up to 14 days to arrive in the post).

Children and older Queenslanders may also receive immunisation reminders through Queensland Health initiatives, such as Immunise to 95, Bubba Jabs on Time, and Immunise Seniors. AIR can record any vaccinations given since 1 January 1996.

Repeat Prescription

Best Practice Software has identified a potential issue when re-prescribing Benzathine Benzylpenicillin G (available as Bicillin L-A in Australia) for the previously expressed 900mg/2.3ml dose, which is incorrectly replaced with the 600,000 unit/1.17ml dose as opposed to the 1,200,000 units/2.3ml dosage.

Best Practice Software recommends ceasing the current prescription and creating a new prescription for the appropriate value until this is resolved in their December Data Update.

Work Cover Certificate

Best Practice Software has identified that the signing certificate for Queensland Workcover has expired. 

Team Bp is working on a resolution and hopes to release this shortly, as an interim solution Team Bp recommends manually processing Workcover claims.

Action: please circulate this communication to relevant members of your practice.

Support is available: for further information or advice on this notification, contact the Software Support team on 1300 40 1111 (in Australia), or 0800 40 1111 (in New Zealand), selecting Bp Premier product at the menu.