Friday 5: 06 August 2021

Kia ora koutou,

Join us in celebrating the week that was, in this week’s Friday 5:

1. To the entire Mass Vaxx team who worked incredibly hard to achieve the first Mass Covid-19 Vaccination 3-day event, here is a big shout-out to you! With an astonishingly 15,000 plus attendees through the door and vaccinated.

2. Highbrook, our first established community centre, are anticipated to hit their 100,000 vaccinations administered milestone today! Pai te mahi and well done team, on all your hard work to date!

3. Targeted activities and strategies for achieving equity for Pacific Peoples have proven to be a great success - the programme is now 113% above Pacific Equity target! Well done and a big acknowledgement to the Pacific team and wider team at NRHCC for the hard work.

4. A big acknowledgment to the Pharmacy team who are anticipating 42 approved sites in Tranche 2 and onboarding 6 sites for next week. There are some big vaccination numbers for some current live sites, with Unichem Medi-centre & Unichem Pakuranga administering over 2000 doses last week

5. This week Otara hosted the first of the Covid-19 Workforce training sessions. Waipareira are set to commence training next week!

Congratulations to Kadin Latham who won a supreme award at Māori Television’s fifth annual Matariki Awards – Ngā Tohu o Matariki o te Tau 2021! Te Rōpū Whakakaupapa Urutā (the National Māori Pandemic Group), whom Kadin is a part of, won recognition for coordinating the nationwide Covid-19 pandemic response for whānau Māori. Well done Kadin!

Just to top off our Friday Five, here is some wonderful feedback from a client who has been recently vaccinated at Henderson Vaccination Centre:

I would like to give a compliment to the staff working at the Henderson Vaccination Centre. The staff you have there are amazing and truly deserve recognition! Every person I interacted with was polite, professional, respectful and helpful. Despite it being a Friday afternoon, everyone was happy, the vibe was great and I felt like I was being spoken with as much energy as if I was the first person walking through the door. I'm sure the staff work long days, some just standing in the carpark, giving out masks as you walk in, or directing people inside the building, but every one of them smiled and interacted with me in such a positive way that made the whole experience better.

I also want to acknowledge the set up and smooth operating system that you have, well done. With the huge volume of people you have coming through the doors, the system works well and is great to see.

Thanks again to the staff at the Henderson Vaccination Centre.

Have a good weekend everyone.

Ngā mihi,

The Vaxx Programme