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.
This reporting process does not replace clinical pathways or consultations with medical specialists regarding patient care or disease management.
After you make a notification
Public Health will undertake a risk assessment which may include:
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details of significant contacts who might have been exposed
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vaccination history
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epidemiologically linked cases
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factors that may make contacts more vulnerable
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potential source of infection/contamination
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wider public health context
Public Health will then provide advice on control measures which may include:
- 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:
Acute encephalitis
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Acute infectious hepatitis (A B C and E)
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Acute meningitis
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Acute poliomyelitis
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Anthrax
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Botulism
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Brucellosis
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Cholera
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COVID-19
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Diphtheria
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Enteric fever (typhoid or paratyphoid fever) |
Food poisoning
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Glandular fever
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Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS)
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Infectious bloody diarrhoea
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Invasive group A streptococcal disease (iGAS)
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Legionnaires disease
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Leprosy
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Malaria
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Measles
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Meningococcal septicaemia
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Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) |
MPOX
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Mumps
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Plague
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Rabies
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Rubella
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Scarlet Fever
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Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) (Not including COVID-19) |
Smallpox |
Tetanus
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Tuberculosis
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Typhus
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Viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF) (Inc Ebola) - Urgent
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Whooping cough
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Yellow fever
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Other emerging or tropical disease
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