6.0.0 Notifications
Notification and reporting to prescribed bodies or authorities in accordance with statutory or other requirements regarding patient/client medical conditions, instances, episodes, etc.
See Patient/client treatment and care for service provider records of the notification or reporting of patient/client conditions, instances, episodes, etc., e.g. birth and death notifications or certificates, reports of notifiable diseases, mandatory reporting of suspected criminal activity (e.g. abuse), etc.
| No. | Description of records | Disposal action |
|---|
| 6.1.1 | See relevant patient record. | |
| 6.2.1 | Records of notifications maintained by hospitals. community health services etc fulfilling obligations to report notifiable diseases. | Retain minimum of 15 years after last attendance or official contact or access by or on behalf of the patient or until patient attains or would have attained the age of 25 years, whichever is longer, then destroy |
| 6.2.2 | Reports of an incidence of a notifiable disease received by Public Health Units. Note: Duplicate notifications received subsequent to the initial notification can be disposed of when no longer required for administrative or reference purposes | Retain minimum of 7 yearsafter action completed, then destroy |
No. 6.1.1 Description of records See relevant patient record. Disposal action |
No. 6.2.1 Description of records Records of notifications maintained by hospitals. community health services etc fulfilling obligations to report notifiable diseases. Disposal action Retain minimum of 15 years after last attendance or official contact or access by or on behalf of the patient or until patient attains or would have attained the age of 25 years, whichever is longer, then destroy |
No. 6.2.2 Description of records Reports of an incidence of a notifiable disease received by Public Health Units. Note: Duplicate notifications received subsequent to the initial notification can be disposed of when no longer required for administrative or reference purposes Disposal action Retain minimum of 7 yearsafter action completed, then destroy |
