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Public health management guidelines

Read Queensland Health guidelines for public health units²

Notification

Attending medical practitioners/medical superintendents (or delegates)

Public health units

Notification procedure ⁴

Notification resources

List of all Pathological, clinical and provisional diagnosis notifiable conditions⁶
List of Public Health Unit⁷ contacts
Notifiable conditions report form for Queensland doctors/clinicians (PHA S70) or a person in charge of a Hospital (PHA S71)⁸ (PDF, 77kB) - if faxing notification, follow up by phone.

Enhanced surveillance for public health units

Case report form⁹ (PDF, 286kB) - used by public health units to collect and manage more detailed information for enhanced case surveillance.

Epidemiological data and reports

View commmunicable diseases data for notifiable conditions in Queensland¹⁰.

Condition information

Search this database of all notifable conditions and find:

control guidelines
notification requirements
health alert information
Resources

Communicable diseases contacts

Ph: +61 7 3328 9724 / 9728
Fax: +61 7 3328 9782
Page content queries¹¹
Find: local public health unit⁷

Test results CDIS-NOCS-Support¹²

Quick links

List of notifiable conditions⁶
Notifiable Conditions Report Form for Queensland Doctors/Clinicians (section 70 PHA) or person in charge of a Hospital (section 71 PHA)⁸ (PDF 294 kB)
Time out poster¹³ (PDF 1458 kB) - guidelines for minimum exclusion periods for cases and contacts attending schools, pre-schools and child care centres.
Public health unit⁷ contact details
Queensland notification criteria guidelines for laboratories¹⁴ (PDF 308 kB) - identifies the results pathology laboratories should notify to the Queensland Notifiable Conditions Register
Public Health Act 2005¹⁵ - including Child Health - contagious conditions
Accessing Medicinal Products held in the National Medical Stockpile¹⁶ (PDF 393 kB)
Accessing Medicinal Products held in the National Medical Stockpile FORM ONLY (PDF 393 kB) ¹⁷
Guidelines for prescribing oseltamivir for seasonal influenza in 2022¹⁸ (PDF 177 kB)
Guideline for calling Public Health Units (after business hours)¹⁹ (PDF 166 kB)

Links

https://www.health.qld.gov.au/disease-control/send-email?referrer=1215482
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/cdcg/index/afp
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/cdcg/index/afp#nc
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/cdcg/index/afp#np
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0035/844847/AFP-flowchart-2019.pdf
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/clinical-practice/guidelines-procedures/diseases-infection/notifiable-conditions/list
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/system-governance/contact-us/contact/public-health-units
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0023/444245/notif-conditions-rpt.pdf
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/cdcg/documents/cr-acute-flac-para.pdf
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/clinical-practice/guidelines-procedures/diseases-infection/surveillance/reports/notifiable
mailto:cdu.online@health.qld.gov.au
mailto:CDIS-NOCS-Support@health.qld.gov.au
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/ph/documents/cdb/timeout_poster.pdf
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/cdcg/documents/notif-criteria-guide.pdf
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/publichealthact/
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0025/672208/accessing-items-nmp.pdf
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0022/1401367/access-national-medical-stockpile.pdf
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0013/1160032/oseltamivir-seasonal-flu-2022.pdf
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/1441171/PHU-after-hours-contacts.pdf

Last updated: 20 July 2022