Disability services take Covid vaccinations 'into their own hands' amid rollout failures

Exclusive: vulnerable residents forced to visit GPs as vaccine deliveries in top-priority phase run behind schedule

Failures with the federal government's Covid-19 vaccine rollout are forcing residential disability care providers to circumvent the system and approach general practitioners directly to secure supplies for vulnerable residents, rather than waiting for deliveries to arrive at their facilities.

Disability care residents and their support workers were included in the highest priority stage for the commonwealth's vaccine rollout, phase 1a, and were to be serviced by in-reach teams who would visit disability accomodation to administer the vaccine.