Services for the operation of the National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry (NORDR)

The Australian CDC operates the National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry (NORDR), which captures and shares data about occupational respiratory disease in Australia. Under the National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry Act 2023, prescribed medical practitioners must notify all new cases of occupational respiratory diseases to the NORDR within 30 days of diagnosis. The Australian CDC is obligated to maintain the NORDR under the National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry Act 2023. The NORDR operator will be required to undertake a range of activities including data validation and quality assurance checks, producing operational processes and documentation, providing helpdesk support, collecting additional information from patients and producing research projects suitable for publication in a scientific journal. The NORDR operator may subcontract another entity to undertake some of this work, where appropriate and agreed to by the Australian Centre for Disease Control.