Microbiology Notifiable Organism and Public Health Reporting Policy

11 pages. Treats notification as a legal duty resting on the laboratory independently of the clinician, with four timing categories and their routes, and presumptive notification for urgent findings closed by confirmation or formal retraction. Covers maintaining the statutory list as prompts rather than memory, what information accompanies a notification, mandatory isolate submission, the legal basis for disclosure without consent, weekly reconciliation of findings against notifications, and handling requests from the authority