Influenza Campaign

Eligibility For Free Vaccine

The influenza vaccine is free for the following people before the 30th June 2009:

Anyone aged 65 years or over.
Anyone under 65 years of age with certain medical outlined below.

• Cardiovascular disease — ischaemic heart disease, congestive heart disease, rheumatic heart disease, congenital heart disease, cerebrovascular disease.
• Chronic respiratory disease — asthma (if on regular preventive therapy), and other chronic respiratory disease with impaired lung function
• Diabetes
• Chronic renal disease
• Cancer (patient currently has cancer), excluding basal and squamous skin cancer if not invasive.
• Other conditions — autoimmune disease, immune suppression, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), transplant recipients, neuromuscular and central nervous system diseases, haemoglobinopathies and children on long term aspirin.
The following conditions are excluded from funding;
• Asthma not requiring regular preventive therapy
• Hypertension and/or dyslipidaemia without evidence of end-organ disease
• Pregnancy in the absence of another risk factor
For further enquires regarding patient eligibility and technical queries contact:
Dr Alison Roberts, Manager Communicable Diseases and Immunisation Ministry of Health, Phone (04) 495 4384 or email alison_roberts@moh.govt.nz

For further enquires regarding patient eligibility and technical queries contact:

Dr Alison Roberts, Manager Communicable Diseases and Immunisation Ministry of Health:
Phone (04) 495 4384 or email alison_roberts@moh.govt.nz

Influenza Documents

Click here to download Poster (PDF 410 KB)

Click here to download Poster (National) (PDF 1 MB)

Click here to download 'The difference between influenza and cold table' (JPEG 375 KB)

Last updated: Wednesday, September 8, 2010