Notification to the Victorian Perinatal Data Collection (VPDC)
The hospital, birthing centre (or private practitioner in cases of home births) where the birth occurs is responsible for sending the data to the VPDC as part of the mandatory reporting requirement outlined in Section 48 of the Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008.
For each birth of at least 20 weeks gestation a standardised birth report - form (A) must be completed either manually or via a hospital computer system. There are approximately 72,000 births notified in Victoria each year.