Quick Reference
This stuff is should be easily accessible through google but bookmarking here for ease.
Routine cases can now be reported online, for urgent cases call your local health protection team
The guidance on the GOV UK website is plain and simple
Submit a routine notification online.
Find your local health protection team
A case may be urgent if:
- it’s part of a current outbreak
- the suspected disease is uncommon in the UK
- the suspected disease spreads easily, or its spread is hard to control
- the patient is high risk, for example because of their age or job
If you are not sure, treat the case as urgent.
This is the landing page for notifiable diseases
Copied verbatim 2024.09.24 Diseases you must report
You must report any suspected case of:
- Acute encephalitis
- Acute infectious hepatitis
- Acute meningitis
- Acute poliomyelitis
- Anthrax
- Botulism
- Brucellosis
- Cholera
- COVID-19
- Diphtheria
- Enteric fever (typhoid or paratyphoid fever)
- Food poisoning
- Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS)
- Infectious bloody diarrhoea
- Invasive group A streptococcal disease
- Legionnaires’ disease
- Leprosy
- Malaria
- Measles
- Meningococcal septicaemia
- Mpox (previously known as monkeypox)
- Mumps
- Plague
- Rabies
- Rubella
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
- Scarlet fever
- Smallpox
- Tetanus
- Tuberculosis
- Typhus
- Viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF)
- Whooping cough
- Yellow fever