Matter Of Vax: National Immunisation Program

Australia’s National Immunisation Program (NIP) offers free vaccinations for those eligible. But when a disease starts to spread in the community state-based programs can often be the first on the ground to respond and make free vaccinations available. In the episode we meet Dr Rod Pearce and ask, what is the NIP, what vaccines are on listed, how do they get there and who’s ‘eligible’?