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Notifiable Diseases
Post your experienceNotification of a number of specified infectious diseases is required under the Public Health (Infectious Diseases) 1988 Act and the Public Health (Control of Diseases) 1984 Act.
Doctors in England and Wales have "a statutory duty to notify a 'proper officer' of the Local Authority of suspected cases of certain infectious diseases". The proper officers are required every week to inform the Health Protection Agency (HPA) Centre for Infections (CfI) about details of each case of each disease that has been notified.
This allows analyses of local and national trends. This information is collected by the HPA.1
Requirements may differ for Northern Ireland2 and Scotland.3
Notification takes place via the appropriate form and includes:
- Patient's name, age, sex and home address
- The disease or form of poisoning being reported
- Date of onset of symptoms
- If in hospital also:
- Hospital address
- Day admitted
- Whether the disease was contracted in hospital
- Telephone or fax can be used in urgent cases
A fee is payable for notification.
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List of notifiable diseases1
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Notify leprosy directly to the HPA.
There is widespread under-reporting and lack of compliance with these guidelines, both in the UK and abroad.12,13,14
Document references
- Health Protection Agency; Notifications of Infectious Diseases (NOIDs)
- Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre Northern Ireland; Notifications of Notifiable Diseases (NOIDs)
- Health Protection Scotland; Notification of Infectious Diseases (NOIDs)
- Health Protection Agency; Diphtheria
- Health Protection Agency; Leptospirosis
- Health Protection Agency; Meningococcal disease
- Health Protection Agency; General Information on Mumps
- Health Protection Agency.; Salmonella Epidemiolgical Data
- Health Protection Agency; Guidelines for Smallpox: Response and Management in the Post-Eradication Era
- Health Protection Agency; Typhoid
- Health Protection Agency; Whooping Cough (Pertussis)
- Pillaye J, Clarke A; An evaluation of completeness of tuberculosis notification in the United Kingdom. BMC Public Health. 2003 Oct 6;3:31. [abstract]
- Brabazon ED, O'farrell A, Murray CA, et al; Under-reporting of notifiable infectious disease hospitalizations in a health board region in Ireland: room for improvement? Epidemiol Infect. 2007 Mar 30;:1-7. [abstract]
- Durrheim DN, Massey IP, Kelly H; Re-emerging poliomyelitis--is Australia's surveillance adequate? Commun Dis Intell. 2006;30(3):275-7. [abstract]
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Last Updated: 7 Aug 2009
Planned Review: 7 Aug 2011
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