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What health professionals should notify National Public Health Service (NPHS) of

The Health Act 1956 lists which diseases require notification to the NPHS, and in some cases the local authority.

The Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996 requires healthcare professionals to notify NPHS of anyone suffering from hazardous substance poisoning or injury, or from chemical contamination of the environment, such as pesticide poisoning.

Health Act 1956 Schedule 1 Infectious diseases — New Zealand Legislation (external link)

Health Act 1956 Schedule 2 Diseases notifiable to medical officer of health (other than notifiable infectious diseases) — New Zealand Legislation (external link)

Section 143 Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996 — New Zealand Legislation

Te Matau a Māui Hawke's Bay notifications

Communicable disease and hazardous substance notifications

Communicable disease and hazardous substance notifications

Notifiable disease notification form — Hawke's Bay [DOC, 204 KB]

Email the form to Public Health

PSOComms.Diseases@hbdhb.govt.nz

Call the on-call Medical Officer of Health if there are any unusual circumstances

Call the on-call Medical Officer of Health on 06 834 1815 if there are any unusual circumstances that require discussion such as:

  • community concern
  • media interest
  • increased public risk.

Report urgent diseases straight away

If the disease is on the urgent disease notification list send a notification straight away — do not wait for laboratory confirmation. Also call:

Overnight notifications can be made in exceptional circumstances if you think immediate public health action or intervention is required.

Urgent disease notification list

Urgent disease notification list
  • Acute gastroenteritis — Only if you suspect an outbreak, a person has suspected or confirmed chemical or toxic food poisoning, or a case is at high risk of infecting others such as a food handler who will not stand down from work duties.
  • Anthrax
  • Avian influenza — highly pathogenic
  • Botulism
  • Cholera
  • Cronobacter species
  • Diphtheria
  • Haemophilus influenzae B invasive disease
  • Hepatitis A
  • Hepatitis B — acute illness only
  • Measles
  • Meningoencephalitis — primary amoebic
  • MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome)
  • Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
  • Neisseria meningitidis invasive disease (meningococcal disease)
  • Plague
  • Poisoning arising from chemical contamination of the environment, including from algal blooms
  • Poliomyelitis
  • Rabies and other lyssaviruses
  • SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome)
  • Tetanus
  • Toxic shellfish poisoning
  • Typhoid and paratyphoid
  • Vero-toxin or shiga-like toxin producing escherichia coli
  • Viral haemorrhagic fevers such as ebola
  • Outbreak of any disease

Aged-residential care outbreak notifications

Aged-residential care outbreak notifications

Contact Public Health on 0800 266 020 if you need support and assistance with managing an outbreak in an aged-residential care facility.

Early childhood centre outbreak notifications

Early childhood centre outbreak notifications

Contact Public Health on 0800 266 020 if you need support and assistance with managing an outbreak in an early childhood centre.

Manawatū-Whanganui notifications

Manawatū-Whanganui notifications

Manawatū-Whanganui notifications

Contact the Manawatū-Whanganui public health team to let them know of a communicable disease or hazardous substance injury or poisoning.

Palmerston North

Whanganui

Urgent notifications and emergencies

In emergencies call 06 350 9110 and the on-call Health Protection Officer will be paged.

Greater Wellington Region notifications

Go to the Regional Public Health site to send notifications in the Greater Wellington Region.

Notifiable diseases — Regional Public Health (external link)

Sexually transmitted infection notifications

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) that require notification are:

  • AIDS and HIV
  • gonorrhoea
  • syphilis.

Health professionals should notify ESR of these diseases.

How to report a notifiable disease — ESR (external link)

Enteric disease exclusion and clearance criteria

Check exclusion and clearance criteria for infectious enteric diseases, including recommended periods of exclusion from work, school or early childcare centres.

Appendix 2: Enteric disease