Dear Health New Zealand,

I refer to the 21 October 2021 Covid-19 Update from Iona, Ministry of Education Secretary which says:

"How to set your school up as a vaccination site

While it is often more convenient for many 12 to 15-year-olds to go with their families to get vaccinated, in some instances your school board may decide that offering vaccinations at school (a school-based programme), or on a school site is in the best interests of your community.

Your school can be used as a ‘community vaccination site’ which will be able to vaccinate staff, students and whānau using a District Health Board (DHB) vaccination team or other team as agreed by the DHB.

In the instance that a school and local health provider agree that the school will be used as a vaccination site, they will be the joint PCBU – schools boards for the health and safety of people on the school site and Ministry of Health/the health provider for the health and safety in relation to vaccine logistics and delivery.

The Ministry of Health have set up a dedicated email you can use for queries about vaccinations and access to vaccination. Email schools [at] @ health.govt.nz with your queries."

Would you kindly provide information on
1. The number of schools that emailed schools @ [at] health.govt.nz to with interest in becoming covid19 vax sites
2. the names of the schools that became covid-19 vaccination sites
3. the number of covid-19 vaccine doses administered at each school
4. the number of ambulance call outs at each school for these doses
5. the number of CARM reports at each school for the covid-19 vaccines

Yours faithfully,

Erika Whittome