MedicAlert membership is essential for anyone with a medical condition, allergy or who takes regular medication that needs to be known in an emergency. The MedicAlert emblem offers peace of mind by alerting emergency service and healthcare professionals to your specific needs when it matters most - especially when you can't speak for yourself.

For 40 years we have been entrusted to protect almost 300,000 members across Australia.

As a quick guide, you need MedicAlert membership if you have:

  • Advance Health Directive / Palliative Care

    For more information regarding Advance Health Directives please contact our Membership Services Team on 1800 88 22 22 (9am - 5pm CST, Monday to Friday).

  • Allergies

  • Identification needs

    • Children
    • Elderly
    • Travellers

  • Implants or devices

    • Artificial knees or hips
    • Artificial heart valve
    • Cochlear implant
    • Contact lenses
    • Coronary stents
    • Hearing aids
    • Lens implants
    • Insulin pump
    • Pacemaker
    • Stents, shunts, catheters, metal pins, plates or clips

  • Medical conditions

    • Alzheimer's, dementia
    • Anaphylaxis
    • Asthma (cold, allergy, exercise induced)
    • Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Pervasive developmental disorder
    • Autism, Asperger syndrome
    • Cancer
    • Diabetes
    • Deep vein thrombosis
    • Epilepsy, seizure disorders
    • Haemophilia
    • Heart Disease
    • Hypothyroidism
    • Language impaired (second language, stutter)
    • Malignant hyperthermia
    • No speech
    • Renal failure
    • Steroid therapy
    • Streptokinase
    • Tourette Syndrome
    • Transient ischaemic attack

  • Take regular medications

    • Anticoagulants
    • Beta Blockers
    • Chemotherapy
    • Epinephrine auto injector
    • Immunosuppressants
    • Insulin
    • Monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI)
    • Steroid therapy
    • Streptokinase

  • Other

    • Blood group
    • No known medical conditions or allergies
    • Organ Donor
    • Scuba Diver
    • Sole Carer