Friday 5: 24 September 2021

Kia ora koutou,

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

1. Today we had the official launch of the Pacific Bus named ‘Busifika Vax’. The first buses will be focusing on our Samoan Community and will be vaccinating in Mangere over the next 3-days. Malo Lava to everyone involved!

2. Last weekend the programme had our first school based vaccination event held in association with Manurewa High school, at the Manurewa Netball Courts. Over the two days there was a total of 536 doses administered and of those 243 (45%) were Pacific People and 159 Maaori (30%) overall 75% of doses delivered were to our Māori and Pacific whanau

3. A huge shoutout to the Birkenhead team who hit their 100,000 doses administered milestone. Well done on all your hard work over the past months to help protect our Whanau and keep them safe from Covid-19!

4. On Wednesday 22nd September the first of the in-home vaccinations were undertaken in South Auckland by the Outreach team. The in-home vaccinations model is designed to support people in the community for whom there are significant physical barriers to accessing vaccination in the community

5. NRHCC has a new website. Including a staff orientation guide (to occupy the newbies when they first arrive), and a wellness page with ideas on how to look after yourself. It’s just for us and will be released very very soon…

This week we say harere ra to some wonderful colleagues! Sarah Merry, our Outreach lead who has organised the vaccination of 180 rest homes and this week supported the launch of the in-home vaccination model. Clare Almeida who was our Mass Vaccination Event and was apart of the implementation team who supported so many of our sites going live and George Sutton who in his short 2-weeks has developed the soon to be revealed NRHCC Intranet. We wish you all the best in your new roles, existing roles or new endeavours!

Just to top off our Friday Five, here is some wonderful feedback from vaccinations happening in our community this week!

The Ngati whatua orakei bus has been in the community for 2 days and we have vaccinated small numbers. However, over half the whanau coming through are first time vaccinations and have told us they would not have gone to a vaccination centre otherwise. Almost all the whanau vaccinated through the outreach are Maori and Pacific. We are now also working with a high number of community groups/leaders and business in our area. Overall it has been a great outcome! Teara Gillman

Thank you all for your support to our community. COVID Vaccines CASS clinic last Thursday went well, our CASS family were blowing away with the way your team Vaccinators handling our students. We are very happy with this successful event, and we are so impressed with how much work and effort you all put into this to eliminate the barriers and become accessible to our students. Thank you everyone, thank you for keeping us safe. Central Auckland Specialist School

A reminder for any teams with new starters or colleagues who arent on the exisiting distribution list please email through to NRHCCVacCoordination@nra.health.nzto be added to the Vaccination Programme distribution list.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Ngā mihi

The Vaxx team