Residential Aged Care Homes: Keep up to Date with Vaccinations this Festive Season
Vaccines are the best protection of serious illness and hospitalisation in older people (1). From 1 November 2025, the new Aged Care Act 2024 strengthened the requirement for residential aged care providers to provide access to recommended vaccinations for their residents. This includes vaccines such as influenza, COVID-19, shingles and pneumococcal. As the festive season […]
Being Prepared for Winter Illness and How to Protect Yourself This Winter
Western Sydney could be entering a challenging winter with influenza and other respiratory illnesses already on the rise, according to the latest data from the National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System. Western Sydney Primary Health Network Clinical Director, Dr Michael Fasher has called on clinicians to begin their annual vaccination programs now in readiness for the […]
Immunisation Bike Competition Success
Immunisation rates for Western Sydney children are steadily rising thanks in part to the annual WentWest, the Western Sydney Primary Health Network, Immunisation Bike Competition. Latest data, published by the Department of Health and Aged Care, shows the immunisation rate for children 5 years and under increased by 1.42 per cent in the last decade. […]
Increasing Immunisation Rates in the Cumberland LGA
On 24 October 2024, we hosted our third Cumberland Health Care Neighbourhood Networking event at The Holroyd Centre at Merrylands. This event follows the success of previous place-based events within this region which have united health care professionals and community members to improve health outcomes in such a culturally diverse pocket. The focus of the […]
Preparing For and Protecting Against Winter Illnesses
As we enter the cooler months of the year, it is important to implement winter preparedness activities to ensure the health and safety of our community. Influenza (flu) cases tend to peak between June and September in Australia each year as the temperature starts to drop. Vaccination is the best protection against respiratory illnesses such […]
Encouraging Childhood Immunisation in Western Sydney and CALD Communities
Our annual Immunisation Bike Competition has officially started. This year, WentWest is celebrating eleven years of running the Immunisation Bike Competition in Western Sydney. Since the annual competition was developed in 2011, there have been 16,422 children immunised through the competition. How Practices Can Get Involved Every child who receives their 12-month, 18-month or four-year-old […]
A Decade of the Immunisation Bike Competition
Thursday 30 June 2022 We are delighted to announce that 2022 marks the 10-year anniversary of the Immunisation Bike Competition in Western Sydney. We would like to extend a big thank you to all the practices who have partnered with WentWest over the years to help promote childhood immunisation to the parents of 12-month, […]
EOIs now open for Immunisation Bike Competition
This year, WentWest is celebrating ten years of running the Immunisation Bike Competition in Western Sydney. Since 2011, WentWest has partnered with local general practices to promote childhood immunisation, vaccinating 16,422 children in the past decade. By taking part, practices help protect children and the wider community from serious diseases that can cause ongoing health […]
COVID-19 Vaccine: A Patient’s Experience
Jenni is a pharmacist working in a Western Sydney hospital and was one of the first people in her community to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Vaccinated on the first day of the rollout at Rosedale Medical Practice, Jenni shared that she was very pleased that her GP was amongst the first selected by the […]
Western Sydney COVID-19 Vaccination Hubs – access for those eligible as 1b
The Western Sydney COVID-19 Vaccination Hubs are now opening to all people categorised as 1b under the NSW Health COVID-19 Vaccination roll out plan. People eligible for vaccination under Phase 1b are: Healthcare workers currently employed and not included in Phase 1a Household contacts of quarantine and border workers Critical and high-risk workers who […]