This report provides an assessment of state and territory performance against the benchmarks outlined in the Essential Vaccines Schedule (EVS) of the Federation Funding Agreement for the period 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023.

The EVS 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”.

Results in this report should be interpreted in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, which may have led to limited immunisation service access and reduced vaccine demand through the reporting period. Following reassessment, 2 jurisdictions met all benchmarks assessed in this period.

Key findings

• One jurisdiction (South Australia) met 4 of the 5 benchmarks assessed in this report. 
• Three jurisdictions (Qld, WA and ACT) met 3 of the 5 benchmarks assessed in this report.
• All jurisdictions were deemed to have met the performance benchmark for vaccination coverage in 5 year olds in 2022–23.
• Queensland and South Australia were deemed to have met all benchmarks in this assessment period.