Practice nurses will be allowed to administer COVID-19 vaccines without a GP during home and aged care visits, after the Federal Government announced it would relax the MBS rules on supervision.

It comes as ATAGI recommends shortening the interval for administering boosters from six months to five in response to the Omicron variant.

On Monday, the government announced plans to move to remote supervision to “ensure those living in aged and disability care can still receive a COVID-19 vaccine or booster shot without having to leave home”.

Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association president Karen Booth said the change was “really great news”.