Under the Public Health Act 1997, laboratories, hospitals, medical practitioners in the ACT must notify ACT Health of diagnoses of certain infectious diseases and conditions. These notifications are compiled into the Notifiable Diseases Management System which is held by the Communicable Disease Control Section at the Health Protection Service. For a condition to be notified, a patient must seek medical help, be diagnosed with the condition, have the appropriate laboratory tests, and then the diagnosis must be reported to ACT Health.

ACT wide. The ACT Notifiable Diseases Management System (NDMS) is a register of the diagnosis of certain infectious diseases and conditions notified to ACT Health by laboratories, hospitals and medical practitioners in the ACT.

Notifiable diseases are generally under-reported in the NDMS – this should be taken into consideration when reporting results of studies using these data.

Laboratories, hospitals, medical practitioners in the ACT must notify ACT Health of diagnoses of certain infectious diseases and conditions. These notifications are compiled into the Notifiable Diseases Management System which is held by the Communicable Disease Control Section at the Health Protection Service.

ACT state data

Public Health Act 1997
ACT Health Data Release Policy 2007