Notification requirements for medical practitioners Effective 1 September 2018 URGENT conditions Require immediate notification by TELEPHONE upon clinical suspicion or diagnosis (presumptive or confirmed). ROUTINE conditions Require WRITTEN notification within five days of initial diagnosis. Anthrax Botulism Cholera Diphtheria Food-borne and water-borne illness (two or more related cases) Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome (HUS) Haemophilus influenza, type b infection (epiglottitis, meningitis, other invasive infections) Hepatitis A Japanese encephalitis Legionellosis Listeriosis Measles Meningococcal infection (invasive) Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS CoV) Murray Valley encephalitis virus infection Paratyphoid Plague Poliomyelitis Rabies Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Smallpox Tularaemia Typhoid Viral haemorrhagic fevers Yellow fever 1300 651 160 immediately Brucellosis Chikungunya virus infection Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) (classical/variant) Cryptosporidiosis Dengue virus infection Donovanosis* Hepatitis B (newly acquired or unspecified) Hepatitis C (newly acquired or unspecified) Hepatitis D Hepatitis E Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection* Leprosy Lyssavirus (including Australian bat lyssavirus) Malaria Mumps Mycobacterium ulcerans Pertussis Pneumococcal infection (invasive) Q Fever Rubella (including congenital rubella syndrome) Salmonellosis Shigatoxin and verotoxin producing E. coli (STEC/VTEC) Shigellosis Syphilis (including congenital)* Tetanus Tuberculosis Varicella zoster infection (chickenpox/shingles) West Nile/Kunjin virus infection To notify, send notification form via: fax 1300 651 170 (local call) or post to Reply Paid 65937 Melbourne VIC 8060 or online at www.health.vic.gov.au/notify * Notifications of HIV and sexually transmitted infections must be de-identified to protect patient privacy. Only the first two letters of the family name and given name of the patient are required, along with other prescribed details.
Notification requirements for pathology services Effective 1 September 2018 URGENT conditions Require immediate notification by TELEPHONE upon clinical suspicion or diagnosis (presumptive or confirmed), followed by written notification within five days of obtaining test results. ROUTINE conditions Require WRITTEN notification within five days of obtaining test results. Anthrax Botulism Cholera Diphtheria Food-borne and water-borne illness (two or more related cases) Haemophilus influenza, type b infection (epiglottitis, meningitis, other invasive infections) Hepatitis A Japanese encephalitis Legionellosis Listeriosis Measles Meningococcal infection (invasive) Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS CoV) Murray Valley encephalitis virus infection Paratyphoid Plague Poliomyelitis Rabies Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Smallpox Tularaemia Typhoid Viral haemorrhagic fevers Yellow Phone 1300 651 160 immediately Arbovirus infections – other arbovirus infections Barmah Forest virus infection Brucellosis Campylobacteriosis Chikungunya virus infection Chlamydia trachomatis infection* Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) (classical/variant) Cryptosporidiosis Dengue virus infection Donovanosis (Klebsiella granulomatis infection)* Gonococcal infection* Hepatitis B (newly acquired or unspecified) Hepatitis C (newly acquired or unspecified) Hepatitis D Hepatitis E Hepatitis (other viral) Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection* Influenza Lead (blood lead greater than 5µg/dL2) Leprosy Leptospirosis Lyssavirus (including Australian bat lyssavirus) Malaria Mumps Mycobacterium ulcerans Pertussis Pneumococcal infection (invasive) Psittacosis (ornithosis) Q Fever Ross River virus infection Rotavirus infection Rubella (including congenital rubella) Salmonellosis Shigatoxin and verotoxin producing E. coli (STEC/VTEC) Shigellosis Syphilis (including congenital)* Tetanus Tuberculosis Varicella zoster infection West Nile/Kunjin virus infection * Notifications of HIV and sexually transmitted infections must be de-identified to protect patient privacy. Only the first two letters of the family name and given name of the patient are required, along with other prescribed details.