QLD Notifiable Condition Report

Detects Queensland notifiable condition reports - notifiable condition or disease notifications, communicable disease reports and public health notifications made under the Public Health Act 2005 (Qld) - when the phrase sits with populated case identifiers and notification fields.

Type

regex

Confidence

medium

Confidence justification

Medium: enforce tiers need a populated case identifier; 85 also needs a notification field and public-health response evidence. Surveillance dashboards, guidelines and news carry the phrases without a case and stay at 65.

Jurisdictions

au

Regulations

Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld), NDB Scheme (Cth), Public Health Act 2005 (Qld)

Frameworks

ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC 2

Data categories

phi, health, government

Scope

narrow

Risk rating

8

Platform compatibility

Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?i)\b(?:notifiable\s+(?:condition|disease)\s+(?:report|notification)|communicable\s+disease\s+report|public\s+health\s+notification|disease\s+(?:surveillance|notification)|reportable\s+(?:condition|disease))\b

Should match

• NOTIFIABLE CONDITION REPORT - Pathology Queensland Patient name: Riley Ashworth DOB: 14/05/2019 Medicare number: 2953 17720 1 Condition: Pertussis Specimen date: 15/09/2026 Notifying laboratory: Pathology Queensland Central Public health unit commenced contact tracing of close contacts at childcare. — Populated notification with case, notification fields and public-health response (85)
• Disease notification received Patient: Morgan Ellisdale URN: 118204 — Notification with labelled case identifiers only (75)
• Communicable disease report - case investigation Case number: QH-CD-2026-08814 Patient name: Sam Okonkwo-Reyes Date of onset: 03/10/2026 Organism: Salmonella Typhimurium Setting: Aged care facility kitchen Outbreak investigation opened; exclusion period advised for food handlers. — Communicable disease report with case number, onset, organism, setting and outbreak response (85)

Should not match

• Notification of scheduled maintenance — Non-match 1
• Disease prevention tips — Non-match 2
• Reportable disease dashboard redesign — Product dashboard phrase must remain discovery-only
• Policy guidance: this procedure explains how notifiable condition report forms are collected, stored and shared, who may access them and how long they are kept. Staff should read the privacy section before completing any form. It contains no details about any individual. — Policy/guidance text naming the topic without any populated record (65 discovery at most)
• Notifiable condition report form Patient name: ____________________ Date of birth: ____________________ Condition: ____________________ Onset date: ____________________ Notifying doctor: ____________________ Signature: ____________ Date: __/__/____ — Blank form with unpopulated labelled fields (placeholder guard keeps it below 75)
• News: disease surveillance data show a rise in pertussis notifications, and public health units are urging parents to check vaccination status. — News/training prose about the topic without a populated record (65 discovery at most)

Known false positives

• Generic notification or disease in non-surveillance contexts. Mitigation: Require notifiable condition or public health notification specific terms.

References

• Public Health Act 2005 (Qld)
• Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld)
• Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)