Sept. 14, 2011
Presentation to local Healthcare Providers

 

For Health Care Providers:

Publicly Funded Immunization Schedules for Ontario (Schedules). The newly revised Schedules will replace the January 2009 version.
Revisions to the Schedules were based on the recommendations from the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI), the Provincial Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee - Immunization (PIDAC-I), and feedback of the review committee comprised of selected public health nurses and associate medical officers of health.

Please find attached the following documents:

1. Memo To Health Care Providers
2. Expansion of Ontario’s Publicly Funded Immunization Program
3. Publicly Funded Immunization Schedules for Ontario – August 2011
4. Questions and Answers for Health Care Providers
   1. Measles, Mumps, Rubella & Varicella Vaccine Program
   2. Adult Dose of Tetanus-Diphtheria-Pertussis (Tdap) Vaccine Program
   3. Two Dose Varicella Immunization Schedule
   4. Rotavirus (RotarixTM) Vaccine Program
5. Recommended and minimum ages and intervals between vaccine doses of publicly funded routine childhood vaccines
6. Poster: Routine Childhood Vaccines
7. Poster:Routine Childhood Vaccines
8. Pamphlet: Giving your child more than one vaccine at a time
9. Immunization record card (“Yellow Card”) (order copies from Health Unit)
10. Rotavirus Vaccine Allotment Plan August 2011
11. Memo - Ontario’s Publicly Funded Immunization Program

After August 1, 2011 additional copies of the revised Schedules and supporting documents can be ordered from ServiceOntario at www.ontario.ca/vaccines. French versions of the Schedules and supporting documents will follow at a later date.

Vaccine Order Form for Health Care Providers

Product Monographs:

Rotarix™
Priorix-Tetra™
Varivax® III
Varilrix®
Adacel®
Boostrix®