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Any medical practitioner who becomes aware of an adverse event following immunisation must notify the Department of Health.

Relevant legislation

The statutory requirement to notify adverse events after immunisation is specified in Regulation 4 of the Health (Notification of Adverse Event After Immunisation) Regulations 1995.

Responsibility for notification

The medical practitioner who becomes aware of an adverse event after immunisation.

Who must be notified

Under the Health (Notification of Adverse Event After Immunisation) Regulations 1995, the Executive Director, Public Health must be notified. Notifications are sent to the Director of the Communicable Disease Control Directorate, Department of Health (Western Australia).

How to notify

Notification should be made to the Department of Health. This can be done by post or fax using a completed adverse reaction report form.

Forms are available from:

The Department of Health website: Adverse reaction report form.pdf (PDF 101KB)

Or by phoning any of he following locations:

The Communicable Disease Control Directorate

The Central Immunisation Clinic

Your local regional Population Health Unit.

Notification is due:

Within 14 days of becoming aware of the adverse event.

Notifications should be made to:

The Director
Communicable Disease Control Directorate
Department of Health

PO Box 8172 Perth Business Centre WA 6849

ADRAC (Australian Drug Reactions Advisory Committee)

All notifications to the Department of Health are forwarded to ADRAC for national surveillance purposes and all notifications to ADRAC are forwarded to the Department of Health for local surveillance purposes.

Information about ADRAC is available from:

The Secretary Adverse Drug Reactions Advisory Committee

PO Box 100
WODEN ACT 2606

Or from the Australian Government's Department of Health and Ageing website.

The ADRAC notification form is also available (PDF 42.3KB)

For more information regarding notification of adverse events following immunisation

Contact the Central Immunisation Clinic on (08) 9321 1312 or your regional Population Health Unit.

For more information regarding adverse events following immunisation or immunisation in general

Refer to:

• The Australian Immunisation Handbook

• The Population Health Division publications website

Or contact the Central Immunisation Clinic on (08) 9321 1312 or your regional Population Health Unit.