I’m currently in the UK, moving over to Australia at the start of January with my husband and our four year old son. We’ve already enrolled him into the same day-care that his cousin already attends but they can’t complete his enrolment without having his immunisation history recorded on the Australian database. He’s fully up to date with his immunisations according to the NHS schedule and I have his history here as proof, but I’m just encountering so many roadblocks with this daycare because they will not accept his NHS records. It’ HAS to be on the Australian register despite having his immunisations over seas.

Has anybody else been in a similar situation and were you able to update the records prior to arriving in Australia? I don’t want to push back his start date for Day-Care too much because he’s currently in primary school here and I don’t want him to be out of the school/learning routine for too long.

I’m worried my only route is to wait till we get to Australia, register with Medicare, register with a GP and then update his records, but I just don’t know how long that could take.