Notifiable Diseases: Information for Registered Medical Practitioners

Statutory notification by Registered Medical Practitioners of suspected notifiable diseases

If you are a Registered Medical Practitioner, you are required to immediately notify Public Health for all cases where you have a clinical suspicion of a notifiable disease being present.

Immediate notification is important as there is often a critical window of time in which effective public health control measures can be implemented.

Registered Medical Practitioners must submit the online notification form for all cases:

Report a notifiable disease

For diseases that require urgent notification, you must call the hospital switchboard on +44 (0) 1534 442000 who will notify the on-call Public Health responsible person.

In the unlikely event that the form is unavailable, call the hospital switchboard to report a notifiable disease.

After you make a notification

Public Health will undertake a risk assessment which may include:

• details of significant contacts who might have been exposed
• vaccination history 
• epidemiologically linked cases 
• factors that may make contacts more vulnerable 
• potential source of infection/contamination 
• wider public health context 

• isolation and exclusion  
• further laboratory testing 
• post-exposure prophylaxis or immunisation  
• other control measures 

List of notifiable diseases

Notifications must only be submitted by Registered Medical Practitioners.

List of notifiable diseases in accordance with Loi (1934) sur la Santé Publique: