Reporting requirements for perinatal, infant, child or adolescent death
Health services must report all perinatal, infant and child deaths must be reported to the Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity (CCOPMM).
CCOPMM requests that this is done within 28 days.
Births
By law, all births must be notified to the Victorian Perinatal Data Collection (VPDC).
The VPDC is a population-based surveillance system and contains comprehensive information on the health of mothers and babies.
What do you have to report?
Any birth or stillbirth that occurs in Victoria.
This includes every birth of at least 20 weeks' gestation or 400 grams birth weight (if gestation is unknown).
Birth data must be submitted within 30 days following discharge.