Notifiable diseases and causative organisms: how to report: uk

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Guidance Notifiable diseases and causative organisms: how to report From: Public Health England Part of: Notifications of infectious diseases (NOIDs) and Health emergency planning First published: 1 May 2010 Notifications of infectious diseases (NOIDs) and reportable causative organisms: legal duties of laboratories and medical practitioners. Contents Registered medical practitioners: report notifiable diseases List of notifiable diseases Laboratories: report notifiable organisms (causative agents) List of notifiable organisms (causative agents) Subscribe to reports References Public Health England (PHE) aims to detect possible outbreaks of disease and epidemics as rapidly as possible. Accuracy of diagnosis is secondary, and since 1968 clinical suspicion of a notifiable infection is all that’s required. ‘Notification of infectious diseases’ is the term used to refer to the statutory duties for reporting notifiable diseases in the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 and the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010. Registered medical practitioners: report notifiable diseases Registered medical practitioners (RMPs) have a statutory duty to notify the ‘proper officer’ at their local council or local health protection team (HPT) of suspected cases of certain infectious diseases. Complete a notification form immediately on diagnosis of a suspected notifiable disease. Don’t wait for laboratory confirmation of a suspected infection or contamination before notification. Send the form to the proper officer within 3 days, or notify them verbally within 24 hours if the case is urgent, securely: by phone letter encrypted email secure fax machine If you need help, contact the local HPT. Look up your local HPT using the postcode lookup For more detail on reporting responsibilities of RMPs, see page 14 of Health Protection Legislation (England) Guidance 2010. All proper officers must pass the entire notification to PHE within 3 days of a case being notified, or within 24 hours for urgent cases. List of notifiable diseases Diseases notifiable to local authority proper officers under the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010: Acute encephalitis Acute infectious hepatitis Acute meningitis Acute poliomyelitis Anthrax Botulism Brucellosis Cholera 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 Mumps Plague Rabies Rubella Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Scarlet fever Smallpox Tetanus Tuberculosis Typhus Viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF) Whooping cough Yellow fever Report other diseases that may present significant risk to human health under the category ‘other significant disease’. Laboratories: report notifiable organisms (causative agents) All laboratories in England performing a primary diagnostic role must notify PHE on the confirmation of a notifiable organism. Read the guidance for diagnostic laboratories on reporting causative agents to PHE (PDF, 339KB, 29 pages) . For more details on responsibilities of laboratories, see page 28 of [Health Protection Legislation (England) Guidance 2010] (http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130107105354/http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/@dh/@en/@ps/documents/digitalasset/dh_114589.pdf). List of notifiable organisms (causative agents) Causative agents notifiable to PHE under the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010: Bacillus anthracis Bacillus cereus (only if associated with food poisoning) Bordetella pertussis Borrelia spp Brucella spp Burkholderia mallei Burkholderia pseudomallei Campylobacter spp Chikungunya virus Chlamydophila psittaci Clostridium botulinum Clostridium perfringens (only if associated with food poisoning) Clostridium tetani Corynebacterium diphtheriae Corynebacterium ulcerans Coxiella burnetii Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus Cryptosporidium spp Dengue virus Ebola virus Entamoeba histolytica Francisella tularensis Giardia lamblia Guanarito virus Haemophilus influenzae (invasive) Hanta virus Hepatitis A, B, C, delta, and E viruses Influenza virus Junin virus Kyasanur Forest disease virus Lassa virus Legionella spp Leptospira interrogans Listeria monocytogenes Machupo virus Marburg virus Measles virus Mumps virus Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex Neisseria meningitidis Omsk haemorrhagic fever virus Plasmodium falciparum, vivax, ovale, malariae, knowlesi Polio virus (wild or vaccine types) Rabies virus (classical rabies and rabies-related lyssaviruses) Rickettsia spp Rift Valley fever virus Rubella virus Sabia virus Salmonella spp SARS coronavirus Shigella spp Streptococcus pneumoniae (invasive) Streptococcus pyogenes (invasive) Varicella zoster virus Variola virus Verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli (including E.coli O157) Vibrio cholerae West Nile Virus Yellow fever virus Yersinia pestis

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