Quality Improvement

Influenza Vaccination QI activities

The Practice Incentive Program Quality Improvement (PIP QI) focuses on 10 Quality Improvement Measures (QIMs) – three of which are influenza QI activities

QIM 4: Flu vaccine in patients aged 65 and over:

QI Record template, POLAR walkthrough

QIM 5: Flu vaccine in patients with diabetes:

QI Record template, POLAR walkthrough

QIM 6: Flu vaccine in patients with COPD:

QI Record template, POLAR walkthrough

Data Quality QI – Influenza Vaccination in Adults 65+

QI Record template

Webinar recordings

3 June 2024: How to use clinical audit tools CAT4 and POLAR to identify eligible patients for free NIP flu vaccines and how to use reports to monitor flu vaccine uptake as a quality improvement activity

GO SHARE RECALL PROGRAMS

Immunisation QI: GoShare recall programs 2025

These QI activities use GoShare to identify patients eligible for NIP funded vaccines, and sends a free recall SMS, personalised with information about the vaccine and your practice number to book an appointment.

GoShare – Pneumococcal recall (70+ years)

Patients aged 70 and over are eligible for a free single dose of Prevenar 13 vaccine

The recall program will send an SMS reminder to eligible patients who have not had a pneumococcal vaccine to encourage them to book an appointment.

These people are also eligible for a free annual dose of Fluad Quad vaccine.

General practices are encouraged to REGISTER for the GoShare 2025 Pneumococcal Vaccination Recall Program which allows a unique opportunity to send a free SMS recall to offer both the Fluad Quad and Prevenar 13 to eligible patient aged 70 years and over. These vaccines are safe to be co-administered.

GoShare – COVID-19 recall (75+ years)

GoShare invite you to REGISTER your practice to participate in a new QI Activity: COVID-19 vaccination recall program for adults aged 75 years and older.

The program uses GoShare to send a personalised SMS to patients aged 75 years and over who received their last COVID-19 vaccine over 6 months ago. The SMS template provided includes a link to information to help the patient understand why their age puts them at increased risk of serious illness from COVID-19 and a call to action to book an appointment at your practice.

To learn more about the program, please see Program Brief.

CESPHN have created a QI activity recording template to accompany the activity.

AIR10A REPORTS

Immunisation QIA Collection – AIR010A reports

This collection of Immunisation Quality Improvement (QI) activities uses the AIR010A Due/Overdue Immunisation by Practice reports, extracted from the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR).

Immunisation QI activities in this collection include:

Adult vaccination QI activities: Pneumococcal vaccination recall for adults aged 70-80, Shingles vaccination recall for adults aged 65-75, MMR vaccination recall for people born after 1966 (and before 1994)

Adolescent vaccination QI activities: HPV vaccination recall for adolescents aged 15-25, DTP vaccination recall for adolescents aged 15-20, MenACWY vaccination recall for adolescents aged 15-20

Childhood vaccination QI activities: Childhood vaccination recall for children aged <5 years for all recommended antigens

CESPHN can support practices in implementing various Immunisation QI activities, with straightforward and practical guidance from our Immunisation Officers. Contact immunisation@cesphn.com.au

Download: Immunisation QIA collection: QI activities using AIR010A reports
Download: Immunisation QIA record of QI activity

OVERDUE CHILDHOOD DASHBOARD

Childhood Immunisation QIA

Register your practice to participate in our Immunisation QI Activity: AIR Overdue Childhood Immunisations.

Participating practices will be provided with:

An Overdue Report – listing children aged 0 – 5 years living in the CESPHN region who have not completed their childhood immunisation schedule, as recorded on the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR). All children listed on your practice’s report had their last vaccination by a provider at your practice, and no immunisation records have been uploaded to AIR since.

An Immunisation QIA Workbook – which provides a step-by-step guide on addressing children on your report, examples of overdue scenarios and how to resolve these; and a QI record template to document activity.

PIPQI documentation – The workbook also serves as a valuable resource for documenting your practice’s participation in continuous quality improvement in collaboration with CESPHN, in accordance with the PIP QI Incentive Guidelines.

One-on-one support – the Immunisation team can provide training to both clinical and non-clinical staff to build their skills and confidence to participate in QI activities.

The QIA Immunisation workbook walks you through how to improve childhood immunisation rates at your practice and troubleshoot some common issues that may be affecting your immunisation rates.

Receive monthly overdue reports: Register

MATERNAL VACCINATION QI ACTIVITIES

Maternal Vaccination QI activities

Immunisation during pregnancy helps protect the health of the baby and mother against communicable diseases. Encouraging uptake can be used as a simple QI activity by using the following template guides:

QI template: Maternal influenza vaccination

QI template: Maternal pertussis vaccination

QI template: Maternal RSV vaccination

IMMUNISATION CLINICAL AUDITS

Immunisation clinical audits

Immunisation clinical audits are activities that systematically review aspects of a GP’s clinical performance against defined best-practice guidelines in the Australian Immunisation Handbook. These RACGP approved CPD activities take approximately 5 hours to complete: