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Division 6 Cr Ros Heit
(Photo: SBRC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>August 5, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

The South Burnett Regional Council will continue to offer an immunisation program for children, even though immunisation is not its responsibility.<\/p>\n

At Wednesday’s Council meeting, Councillors heard an existing School Based Immunisation Agreement with Queensland Health will expire at the end of this year.<\/p>\n

Officers recommended Council directly employ the current immunisation nurses on a casual basis rather than continue to contract them from a Brisbane-based nursing company, and ask Queensland Health for assistance in enlisting further nurses.<\/p>\n

Officers also recommended Queensland Health be asked to confirm its reimbursement arrangements before Council signed any new agreement.<\/p>\n

The recommendations provoked lively debate in Council.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cr Ros Heit opened the debate by suggesting, as an amendment, that Council refuse to sign any new agreement with Queensland Health unless the program was cost-positive or at least cost-neutral.<\/p>\n

“I think immunisation is very important for our community’s health, but I don’t see why our ratepayers should be expected to pay for something the State Government should be doing,” Cr Heit said.<\/p>\n

Cr Barry Green agreed immunisation was really a State Government responsibility. <\/p>\n

“But in all good conscience, it’s just too important for our community’s health to let it drop,” he said.<\/p>\n

Cr Kathy Duff said she thought immunisation was a vital service, so she couldn’t support the amendment if it meant Council might cut the program altogether.<\/p>\n

Cr Keith Campbell asked what the situation was at the moment.<\/p>\n

Mayor Wayne Kratzmann said the program was effectively cost-neutral, but warned it might wind up costing “a few thousand each year” if Queensland Health didn’t cover the full cost.<\/p>\n

However he thought the issue was too important to risk bluffing.<\/p>\n

“What would we do if Queensland Health said no?” <\/p>\n

Cr Damien Tessmann said he found himself straddling a barbed wire fence on the issue.<\/p>\n

“I agree with Cr Heit’s position and I’m certainly not against reminding the State Government we’re doing a job they should be doing,” Cr Tessmann said.<\/p>\n

“On the other hand, I agree that immunisation is important and I also think Council does it more effectively than Queensland Health. If we stopped doing it, I think immunisation rates would drop.”<\/p>\n

Cr Deb Palmer said she hoped Councillors would keep in mind that children are everyone’s future and it was everyone’s responsibility to protect them.<\/p>\n

In the end, Cr Heit’s amendment was lost 5-2 and the original recommendations passed by the same margin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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