Terms and conditions of supply of government-funded vaccines
To receive government funded vaccines, I agree to the following requirements for vaccine storage and management:
- If the owner of this account or recipient cannot receive vaccines at the agreed delivery time, Onelink will be contacted immediately.
- Any changes to account information, including account email addresses, account premises or delivery addresses will be advised to Onelink.
- On receipt of vaccines, the recipient will immediately check the TagAlert® temperature indicator with the delivery; the recipient will immediately notify Onelink using the TagAlert® form if the LCD is not displaying ‘OK’.
- Vaccines will be immediately unpacked into a purpose-built vaccine refrigerator and stored in its original packaging.
- Vaccine stock is rotated regularly to avoid over-ordering and expiry wastage.
- Only 1 fortnight of vaccine stock plus a small buffer will be stored on site, the refrigerator will not be overfilled.
- This account complies with the recommended vaccine cold chain storage of temperatures between +2° and +8° as stated in the National Vaccine Storage Guidelines ‘Strive for 5’.
- This centre follows the WA cold chain breach protocol, and follows the process outlined on the cold chain breach formto report all cold chain breaches immediately, and will not discard vaccines unless advised.
- If a cold chain breach is caused by a refrigerator operating outside +2° and +8°, the Western Australia Department of Health may withhold vaccine supply until after the refrigerator has been stable for 48 hours.
- To undertake a vaccine cold chain audit on request of the WA Department of Health.
- This account complies with mandatory reporting of vaccination encounters to the Australian Immunisation Register.