Key messages

When a patient presents to an emergency department or urgent care centre, they should be given the best available information.

This updated fact sheet helps ensure clinicians and patients have access to easy-to-read information about different emergency conditions.

Give this fact sheet to your patients when discharging them from an emergency department or urgent care centre.

Please note that this guidance is currently undergoing review by Safer Care Victoria to ensure  the content is up to date. In the meantime, we recommend that you also refer to more contemporaneous evidence where possible.

Download our fact sheet to provide your patients with easy to follow guidance on tonsillitis and pharyngitis.

This fact sheet has the #withconsumers tick from the Consumers Health Forum of Australia

Tonsillitis is an infection of the tonsils, which are masses of lymphoid tissue on either side of the back of the throat. The tonsils are a small part of the immune system, which protects and helps the body to fight infections.

Tonsillitis is very common and can occur at any age; however, it is most common in children and young adults.

Pharyngitis is an infection of the throat.

Patient fact sheet

Get in touch

Clinical Guidance Team
Safer Care Victoria
clinicalguidance@safercare.vic.gov.au

Version history

First published: July 2019
Due for review: July 2022

Related links

Kids Health Info fact sheets - Royal Children's Hospital
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