Updates to Notifiable Conditions in South Australia

27 June 2025

There have been important updates to the notifiable and controlled notifiable conditions in South Australia (SA) in the South Australian Public Health (Notifiable and Controlled Notifiable Conditions) Regulations 2025. The changes came into effect on 26 June 2025. A summary of changes is provided below.

Changes to the list of notifiable and controlled notifiable conditions

1. The following conditions are new or updated notifiable conditions for medical practitioners and laboratories:

Acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis
Chlamydia trachomatis - no longer limited to sexually transmitted infections (STIs) so trachoma is now notifiable
All prion diseases - no longer limited to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
All meningococcal disease - no longer limited to invasive infections
Monkeypox virus infection and mpox

2. Medical practitioners are no longer routinely required to notify the following conditions (laboratory notifiable only):

Chlamydia trachomatis (≥17 years)
Rotavirus
Varicella-zoster
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)
Coronavirus 2019 (COVID)
Seasonal influenza

3. Medical practitioners continue to be required to notify the conditions listed in (2) above if any of the following apply:

where they suspect a person has died from one of these conditions
where they have conducted a point of care test for one of these conditions, received a positive result, AND this result is not reported by a pathology service
where the person with Chlamydia trachomatis is aged 16 years or younger.

4. Syphilis has been added to the list of controlled notifiable conditions. This gives the Chief Public Health Officer additional powers including examination, testing, counselling, and directions to minimise the spread of syphilis, if the action is reasonably necessary in the interests of public health.

5. Thrombotic thrombocytopaenic purpura (TTP) is no longer notifiable.
Doctors are advised to:

Notify urgent conditions or conditions where public health advice is required on 1300 232 272 (24 hours/7 days) as indicated on the notification form.
Notify all other conditions as soon as practicable (via online form or fax) and within three days.
Fax STI and bloodborne virus (BBV) notifications to (08) 7425 6696 using the forms available at https://www.sahealth.sa.gov.au/notifiablediseasereporting.
Notify using the online notification form for non-urgent conditions (except STIs, BBVs and mycobacterial disease) where possible, available from https://extapps2.sahealth.sa.gov.au/CDCB-Notify/.
Notify tuberculosis and other mycobacterial disease to SA Tuberculosis Services on (08) 7117 2983.
See https://www.sahealth.sa.gov.au/surveillancenotifiableconditions for graphs and reports of notifiable conditions in SA.
See South Australian Notifiable Conditions or Related Death: Information for Health Professionals fact sheet (PDF 1.8MB)South Australian Notifiable Conditions or Related Death: Information for Health Professionals fact sheet (PDF 1.8MB) on notification for further information on these changes.

For all enquires please contact the CDCB on 1300 232 272 (24 hours/7 days)
Dr Louise Flood – Medical Lead, Communicable Disease Control Branch

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Last updated: 27 Jun 2025

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