Vaccination rates increase nationwide
VACCINATION RATES:
NATIONWIDE
* 91 per cent of one-, two- and five-year-olds vaccinated with only 84,571 not fully vaccinated in 2014/15.
* One-year-old children across all public health networks below the target of 95 per cent full vaccination.
STATE SNAPSHOT
* ACT has highest rates of immunisation of children under 15 months old, followed by Northern Territory and Queensland.
* NSW regions have both the best and worst rates of vaccinations in one-year-olds, with nearly one quarter not fully immunised on the state's far north coast in 2014/15.
BEST AND WORST RATE CHANGES
* Sydney was split east to west with both biggest increase in recorded one-year-old vaccinations in the city's east and the worst decreases in the country in the western suburbs.
TOP FIVE REGIONS FOR ONE-YEAR-OLD VACCINATION:
* NSW: Snowy Mountains
* WA: Esperance
* VIC: Grampians
* NSW: Wagga Wagga
* QLD: Centenary
BOTTOM FIVE ONE-YEAR-OLD VACCINATION:
* NSW: Richmond Valley - Coastal
* WA: Mundaring
* TAS: Huon - Bruny Island
* NSW: Auburn
* SA: Adelaide City
SOURCE: National Health Performance Authority and The Australian Childhood Immunisation Register
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