10 September 2025
Catherine
[FYI request #31872 email]
Tēnā koe Catherine
Your request for official information, reference: HNZ00095189
Thank you for your email on 20 August 2025, asking Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora for the
following under the Of icial Information Act 1982 (the OIA):
"October 2021 minutes of the Independent Safety Monitoring Board included an update on
the CVIP as Point 3. Contained in the point 3 was the following:’' Noted that concomitant
vaccinations have been approved and this has now been implemented by the Programme.'
Please provide:
•
approval documentation, including but not limited to gazetted notices, for these
concomitant vaccinations; and
•
any correspondence or other documentation referencing or containing information
about these concomitant vaccinations.”
Response
Information regarding the decision to allow coadministration, or concomitant administration, of
COVID-19 and other vaccines, such as influenza and MMR, is publicly available.
The Covid-19 Vaccine Technical Advisory Group discussed this on 17 August and 31 August 2021.
Minutes from these meetings can be found here (under section 8):
https:/ fyi.org.nz/request/16691-
covid-19-vaccine-technical-advisory-group-meeting-minutes
They later provided a memo detailing their advice on administering dif erent vaccines at the same
time
: www.tewhatuora.govt.nz/assets/About-us/Who-we-are/Expert-groups/COVID-19-Vaccine-
Technical-Advisory-Group-CV-TAG/Coadministration-of-the-COVID-19-vaccine-with-other-
vaccines-including-the-MMR-and-influenza-vaccines.pdf
Medsafe data sheets provide information about concomitant administration and can be found on
their website
: https://www.medsafe.govt.nz/
How to get in touch
If you have any questions, you can contact us at
[email address].
If you are not happy with this response, you have the right to make a complaint to the
Ombudsman. Information about how to do this is available at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or
by phoning 0800 802 602.
Nāku iti noa, nā
Danielle Coe
Manager (OIA), Government Services