GENERAL practitioners are calling on the New South Wales Government to urgently expand free vaccination access state-wide, including an upcoming intranasal influenza vaccine for young children.

Less than a quarter of kids in NSW aged under five and fewer than 60% of patients aged over 65 are vaccinated against the flu, lagging the national average.

The RACGP is calling for expanded access to vaccinations, including full funding of flu vaccination for high-risk groups; intranasal flu vaccines for children aged two to five years; meningococcal B vaccines for those aged two years and under as well as 15-19-year-olds; and funding for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines for those aged over 50.

Funding access to the new intranasal vaccine will help relieve the stresses many parents experience when it comes to giving small children an injection, the RACGP said.

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