Source: New Zealand Ministry of Health
The Immunisation Handbook 2020 provides clinical guidelines for health professionals on the safest and most effective use of vaccines in their practice. These guidelines are based on the best scientific evidence available at the time of publication, from published and unpublished literature.
Read the handbook
To read the Immunisation Handbook you can:
Refer to the Pharmaceutical Schedule (on the Pharmac website) for the number of funded doses, eligibility criteria and any subsequent changes to the funding decisions.
Changes to the handbook in 2020
All chapters have been updated and revised since the 2017 edition (2nd edition, 2018).
See the Introduction for more detail on changes to:
