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Matt Hepworth spoke with Northern Territory Primary Health Network CEO Gill Yearsley regarding the NT Phase 1b COVID vaccine rollout · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: MIXWIO four point nine dot com for all the latest
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  Speaker 1: news and information now three sixty with Katie Wolf. Everyone
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  Speaker 2: Matt Hepworth with you on this Wednesday morning, the seventeenth
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  Speaker 2: of March. Happy Saint Patrick's day to you all. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: the three year anniversary of Cyclo Marcus as well. We'll
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  Speaker 2: talk more about that a little bit later in the program.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, though, the Northern Territory Primary Health Network has
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  Speaker 2: today announced the schedule for the rollout of the COVID
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  Speaker 2: nineteen vaccine through twenty five territory based private general practices
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  Speaker 2: and three respiratory clinics. To talk more about it is
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  Speaker 2: the NTPHN Chief Executive Officer, Jill Years Lead. Jill, Good morning,
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  Speaker 2: morning match.
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  Speaker 3: How are you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Very well, Thank you, Jill. This is a very exciting
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  Speaker 2: announcement for territory ines today. Can you tell us how
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  Speaker 2: this rollout is going to work?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, so thank you for asking. So the Stage one B,
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  Speaker 3: the national rollout strategy, starts on Monday, the twenty second March.
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  Speaker 3: That's this Monday coming and this phase targets adults over
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  Speaker 3: seventy healthcare workers, Aboriginal and Torostra islander adults, adults with
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  Speaker 3: a specified medical audition condition, disability workers, and critical high
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  Speaker 3: risk workers such as defense, police, fire and emergency services personnel.
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  Speaker 3: And as you've alluded to, in the territory, we have
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  Speaker 3: twenty five practices and thirty respiracy clinics who will vaccinate
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  Speaker 3: over a stage four week program. So what that means
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  Speaker 3: is not forgetting everyone that the vaccine is free. That
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  Speaker 3: Week one starts with ten practices and the three respiracy clinics.
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  Speaker 3: Week two will start with an additional three practices, Week
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  Speaker 3: three four practices, and week four eight practices. Sounds a
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  Speaker 3: bit confusing, and it's stage for a very specific reason,
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  Speaker 3: but we are working with them all of those practices
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  Speaker 3: to support the role out to everyone's ready, Jill.
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  Speaker 2: How many territorians are in that phase one?
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  Speaker 3: B do you know? I actually don't know the numbers.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry about That's something I can find out and
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  Speaker 3: get back to you, though.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, that is quite a right. Obviously said it's
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  Speaker 2: going to roll out over four weeks, and obviously we'll
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  Speaker 2: start with ten in the first week, gearing up to
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  Speaker 2: twenty five. Are you able to take us through some
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  Speaker 2: of the general practices around Darwin and Palmerston where people
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  Speaker 2: will be able to book in for the vaccine.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't got that list right in front of me,
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  Speaker 3: but I do know that it's on our In fact
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  Speaker 3: I do. Here we go. So we've got Baykin, Palmerston,
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  Speaker 3: Arafura in Casharina, Humpy Do bar Street Family, Medical, top A,
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  Speaker 3: Medical Leania, Medical Territory, Medical, mole Medical Pandanas and Cabana
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  Speaker 3: are all in that first block. And there respiratory clinics
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  Speaker 3: at the Palmerston GP Superclinic, Congress in Alice and Central
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  Speaker 3: Clinic in Alice.
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  Speaker 2: I noticed there the sorry continuing, All right, you guys.
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  Speaker 3: I would say all of these are on the ntphn
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  Speaker 3: dot org get au COVID website as well, so you
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  Speaker 3: don't have to remember all of.
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  Speaker 2: This, yes, gonna, that would be a rather extensive list
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  Speaker 2: to remember all of those. I noticed there is a
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  Speaker 2: bit of a gap there in Catherine though. How will
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  Speaker 2: residents in Catherine as part of that Phase one b
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  Speaker 2: rollout access to the vaccine.
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  Speaker 3: We're working in partnership with our colleagues in the Northern
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  Speaker 3: Territory Government at the moment, given that we know that
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  Speaker 3: we've having our new practices coming on board in Catherine,
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  Speaker 3: so there's a little bit of a conversation going on
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  Speaker 3: there to see how that will work. Of course, the
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  Speaker 3: community of Catherine won't be forgotten, but we'll need to
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  Speaker 3: maybe find an alternate strategy in the first place around that.
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  Speaker 3: But once we know more, we'll let you know, Jill.
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  Speaker 2: Which brand or type of vaccine will people under Phase
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  Speaker 2: one be receive.
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  Speaker 3: As far as I'm aware, there's a mixture of both
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  Speaker 3: either and the astrosenica, but we don't really get told
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  Speaker 3: which ones are coming where or when. Obviously, we know
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  Speaker 3: that we're trying to support the one bee more to
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  Speaker 3: be because of the difficulties with some of the cold
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  Speaker 3: chained storages and some of the remote communities, the one
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  Speaker 3: bees will be used to more respectively target with start Fizer.
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  Speaker 3: So but we really don't know about that. When the
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  Speaker 3: Astrazeneka is going to arrive, we believe it will be soon,
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  Speaker 3: but we will continue with the vaccination program regardless of
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  Speaker 3: which vaccine we have access to.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, and I know there's been a couple of different
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  Speaker 2: time frames depending on which vaccine your receiver as to
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  Speaker 2: how long it is between your first and second JAB.
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  Speaker 2: If the territory in Phase one B were to get
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  Speaker 2: a JAB next week, when would be their second dive
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  Speaker 2: or their second JAB.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right, it is slightly different dependent on which
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  Speaker 3: vaccination it is, and your health practitioner will make you're
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  Speaker 3: fully aware of that based upon which vaccination.
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  Speaker 2: You've received, will be the responsibility of the person getting
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  Speaker 2: the vaccine or will there be some kind of a
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  Speaker 2: follow up system from the GPS.
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  Speaker 3: No, the GPS will develop a follow up system. We're
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  Speaker 3: working closely with all of the clinics around the follow
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  Speaker 3: up system to ensure that that's targeted, very specific and
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  Speaker 3: trying not to miss people. So there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: work going on behind the scenes around the digital reporting strategies,
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  Speaker 3: The monitoring strategies a little bit light you have with
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  Speaker 3: other immunization schedules, which you might do over a number
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  Speaker 3: of months, for instance, for different types of illnesses.
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  Speaker 2: We heard late last week there was some concerns about
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  Speaker 2: a delay in the arrival. I believe it was of
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  Speaker 2: the astrosenica vaccine here in the Northern Territory. From what
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  Speaker 2: you've heard that that will be ready for this role
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  Speaker 2: out next week though.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, I've heard nothing to indicate anything different. And as
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  Speaker 3: I say, we work very closely in partnership with our
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  Speaker 3: colleagues in the Northern Territory government and of course our
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  Speaker 3: colleagues in the Aboriginal Medical Services as well, So we're
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  Speaker 3: all working in this together and we're all working to
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  Speaker 3: make sure that we get the proper coverage for our
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  Speaker 3: community in the Northern Territory.
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  Speaker 2: There are obviously still still some Territorians that hold concerns
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  Speaker 2: about the vaccines. What would be your message to them,
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  Speaker 2: particularly that if they are in this Phase one B
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  Speaker 2: role out which commences next week.
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  Speaker 3: Look, if you are concerned, please get hold of your
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  Speaker 3: primary practitioner, the person who would be or the service
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  Speaker 3: that you would be going to to get your vaccination,
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  Speaker 3: and talk to them about your concerns. Obviously, people are concerned,
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  Speaker 3: always concerned about vaccinations. But as we've heard from the
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  Speaker 3: multiple agencies who've been providing the authority for these vaccinations
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  Speaker 3: to be given, you know, it seems to be safe.
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  Speaker 3: People being asked to go ahead and get the vaccinations
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  Speaker 3: because it's safer to be vaccinated than it is not
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  Speaker 3: to be But of course people with concerned please talk
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  Speaker 3: to your health practitioner and seek their advice. Should you
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  Speaker 3: hold further concerns, Jill.
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  Speaker 2: In terms of the rollout at these gps, will there
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  Speaker 2: be dedicated staff that will be able to do it?
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  Speaker 2: Will it just be one doctor or will all staff
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  Speaker 2: be given the training to be able to roll this out?
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  Speaker 3: That really is to the GPS concerned. However, for or
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  Speaker 3: anyone who's involved in the role out, they will have
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  Speaker 3: had to undergo the dedicated and specified training that is
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  Speaker 3: provided for each of the different vaccines. So each vaccine
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  Speaker 3: has a different training schedule and the providers will all
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  Speaker 3: have to do that training if they're going to be
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  Speaker 3: delivering the vaccinations.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so obviously we see one bee rolling out on Monday.
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  Speaker 2: Is a phase two after that? Am I correct in
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  Speaker 2: saying that? But it's a bit later in the year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and we still don't know the details around that.
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  Speaker 3: So as soon as we do know the details, will
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  Speaker 3: let you know.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that is fantastic, Jill. If there is anyone else
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  Speaker 2: with any further concerns or questions about this, as I said,
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  Speaker 2: particularly those that are a part of that Phase one
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  Speaker 2: b roll out next week, where can they go?
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  Speaker 3: They can go either to the Northern Territory pH own website,
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  Speaker 3: or they can go to the Australian government website. There
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  Speaker 3: is plenty of information on the www dot health dot
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  Speaker 3: gov dot au. There's lists there of all of the
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  Speaker 3: gps which have been provided, there's information about the vaccinations.
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  Speaker 3: There's information for health providers too, so anyone that wants
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  Speaker 3: to know more information can access that. And again, if
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  Speaker 3: there are for the concerns, please seek advice from your
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  Speaker 3: primary care provider, your GP or your Aboriginal medical service.
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  Speaker 3: It's important that you get the right information absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Jill Yearsley, the NTP Chief Executive Officer, thank you so
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  Speaker 2: much for answering all of our questions this morning, and
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  Speaker 2: good luck with this rollout over the next few weeks.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for having me. Great to top.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you bye, thank you. By now that is Jill Yearsley,
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  Speaker 2: the Northern Territory Primary Health Network CEO. They're talking about
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  Speaker 2: this Phase one b rollout begins next week now if
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  Speaker 2: you did miss those, So, the Phase one b rollout
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  Speaker 2: targets adults over seventy years, healthcare workers Aboriginal Andora Straight
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  Speaker 2: Island to adults, adults with a specified medical condition, disability
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  Speaker 2: workers and critical and high risk workers such as defense, police,
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  Speaker 2: fire and emergency services personnel. Couldn't get an exact number
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  Speaker 2: on that. There is obviously a large group. You'd imagine
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  Speaker 2: there are thousands in there now. To book you can
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  Speaker 2: go to the federal government's health website. There is a
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  Speaker 2: dedicated booking service there that lists some of the gps
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  Speaker 2: that we'll be delivering this vaccine. That includes the Bakewell
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  Speaker 2: Medical Center if you're a medical center, Are if you're
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  Speaker 2: a medical Humpty Doo, Bath Street Family Medical and Ala
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  Speaker 2: Springs Top End Medical Gateway, Leanna Medical, Territory Medical Group,
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  Speaker 2: Nightcliffe More Medical Center, Alice Springs, Pandanis Medical Darwin, and
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  Speaker 2: Kavanaugh Medical Center, Darwin. It's expected to take over four weeks. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of territories with a lot of questions.
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  Speaker 2: I do apologize if we couldn't get to all of
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  Speaker 2: your questions with Jill, but the public of the Primary
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  Speaker 2: health network certainly advising people go to the website for
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  Speaker 2: more information. That is n t p h N n
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  Speaker 2: t pH N dot org, dot AU