Queensland Health is recruiting general practitioners and other healthcare workers to participate in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy research interviews to understand the factors that influence COVID-19 vaccine uptake. The research interviews, conducted by IPSOS Research, will be completed via Microsoft Teams or over the phone from 4 January to 8 January 2021.

Youth Empowered Towards Independence (YETI) is inviting comments on their COVID-19 discussion paper through which they hope to contribute to policy development and service planning to meet the needs of remote school aged Indigenous youth in a COVID-19-changed world.

The Commonwealth Government has announced that the National Health (COVID-19 Supply of Pharmaceutical Benefits) Special Arrangement 2020 (the PBS Special Arrangement), to support the COVID-19 pandemic response, has been extended to 31 March 2021.

A number of Australian Government agencies have been working together for some months on PPE supply. As part of this work the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources, in collaboration with the Department of Health, has developed the PPE Buyer’s Guide. The purpose of the buyer’s guide is to assist organisations when purchasing PPE for COVID-19.

North Queenslanders are used to surviving emergencies, whether it be fires, floods, or cyclones. For Whitsunday-based GP Dr Chris Gill, the opportunity to help the community fight a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic was too good to pass up.