Public health and notifiable diseases

Public health responses for notifiable diseases in the Northern Territory (NT) are coordinated by the Centre for Disease Control (CDC), Public Health Division.

Medical staff and laboratories must notify CDC when diagnosing or seriously suspecting a disease listed on the NT schedule of notifiable diseases.

For more information on which conditions must be notified, get the schedule of notifiable diseases in the NT PDF (251.7 KB).

Go to the Surveillance Updates to read about communicable disease trends across the Northern Territory.

How to notify

For urgent notifications, call your local CDC immediately.

For urgent notification after hours, contact the on-call public health physician through the Royal Darwin Hospital switchboard.

For routine notifications, follow these steps:

Step 1. Fill in the notifiable disease reporting form.

Notifiable disease reporting form PDF (178.0 KB)
Notifiable disease reporting form DOCX (76.7 KB)

Step 2. Submit the completed form to CDC.

Schools and childcare centres

Exclusion periods apply to schools, pre-schools and day care centres for children and educators who have been exposed to an infectious disease.

To find out about the exclusion periods, get the Time Out poster from the NT Health Digital Library.