Summary

This report provides an assessment of state and territory performance against the performance benchmarks outlined in the Essential Vaccines Schedule of the Federation Funding Agreement – Health (EVS), for the fifth year of the agreement, covering the assessment period 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022.

The EVS (previously the National Partnership on Essential Vaccines, or NPEV) is an agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia and the states and territories, which aims to “support the cost-effective and efficient delivery of the National Immunisation Program to protect the Australian public from the spread of vaccine preventable diseases”.

The performance benchmarks assessed in this report are:

  1. maintained or increased vaccination coverage rates for 60–<63 month olds relative to the baseline;
  2. maintained or increased vaccination coverage rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in at least two of the following three age cohorts: 12–<15 months; 24–<27 months; and 60–<63 months, relative to the baseline;
  3. an increase in the vaccination coverage rate for both adolescent boys and adolescent girls for HPV, relative to the baseline;
  4. an increase in vaccination coverage rates for 60–<63 month olds in four of the ten lowest vaccination coverage SA3 geographical areas in each jurisdiction, relative to the baseline; and
  5. an annual decrease in the wastage and leakage rate for agreed vaccines, relative to the baseline.

A performance milestone of “provision of annual schools HPV immunisation data for the previous school year by 1 March each year” is also specified in the agreement. For the fifth year of the agreement, all states and territories achieved this milestone.

One jurisdiction (South Australia) met all 5 benchmarks assessed in this report.

Table S1: Achievement against EVS benchmarks assessed for the period 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022, by state and territory

State/territory

PB1

PB2

PB3

PB4

PB5

Number of benchmarks fully met

NSW

x

PARTLY

3

Vic.

PARTLY

4

Qld

x

PARTLY

3

WA

x

PARTLY

3

SA

5

Tas.

x

PARTLY

3

NT

x

x

3

ACT

x

4

Note: A list of the EVS benchmarks and their detailed specifications is in Appendix A.