Microbiology

Reporting

Registered medical practitioners in England and Wales have a statutory duty to notify their local authority or local Health Protection Team of suspected cases of certain infectious diseases.

The written notification should be preceded by a telephone call to the Consultant in Health Protection based at the above address in cases of Infectious Disease where urgent action to protect public health is needed

See the following link for current practice:  https://www.gov.uk/guidance/notifiable-diseases-and-causative-organisms-how-to-report

In case of difficulties see the following link for contact details of UKHSA South West:

UKHSA South West: advice, support and services – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

List of Notifiable Diseases under Health Protection Legislation (England) Guidance 2010 with additional update April 2025

• Acute encephalitis

• Acute flaccid paralysis or acute flaccid myelitits (AFP or AFM)

• Acute infectious hepatitis

• Acute meningitis

• Acute poliomyelitis

• Anthrax

• Botulism

• Brucellosis

• Cholera

• Congenital syphilis

• COVID-19

• Creutzfelt-Jakob disease (CJD)

• Diphtheria

• Disseminated gonococcal infection (DGI)

• Enteric fever (typhoid or paratyphoid fever)

• Food poisoning

• Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS)

• Infectious bloody diarrhoea

• Influenza of zoonotic origin

• Invasive group A streptococcal disease

• Legionnaires’ disease

• Leprosy

• Malaria

• Measles

• Meningococcal septicaemia

• Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)

• Monkeypox

• Mumps

• Neonatal herpes

• Plague

• Rabies

• Rubella

• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

• Scarlet fever

• Smallpox

• Tetanus

• Tuberculosis

• Typhus

• Viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF)

• Whooping cough

• Yellow fever