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 patients where you have a clinical suspicion of a notifiable disease.

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 Officer.

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

After you make a notification

A risk assessment will be undertaken 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
• immunisation
  

List of notifiable diseases

Notifications must only be submitted by Registered Medical Practitioners.

Do not use this form to report any disease not listed below.

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

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Should you require advice regarding the reporting process for any other disease of concern, please contact the appropriate department, for example Infection Prevention and Control (IPaC) or Environmental Health​.

​Norovirus and other infectious diseases