There are new MANDATORY anaphylaxis notifications that have been issued by the Department of Health that are IN EFFECT as of 1st November 2018.

You can read the entire document below but the most important parts have been extracted below:

What to notify?

ALL cases of anaphylaxis that present to our emergency department – regardless of whether symptoms have improved or not, and regardless of whether the trigger is known or not.

Urticaria or angioedema, if occurring in isolation, do not need to be reported.

Cases of anaphylaxis that occur whilst in hospital, curiously, do not need to be reported.

How to notify?

Where the suspected cause is the consumption of a packaged food:
Notifications are required to be made:

immediately (within 24 hours of diagnosis),
by telephone (1300 651 160, which is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week),

• with the details listed in the ‘notification details’, below, to the departmental staff member.
If in doubt about whether the suspected cause was a packaged food, hospitals are advised to
use this notification route.

Where the suspected cause is anything other than packaged food

Notifications are required to be made:
• within five days of initial diagnosis of anaphylaxis,
• electronically via the online form through the department’s website at

www2.health.vic.gov.au/notify

and click on the link in the notification table for anaphylaxis,
• with the details listed in ‘notification details’, below.

Anaphylaxis notifications guidance Oct 18