Notifiable diseases are infectious diseases which doctors have a statutory duty to report to the 'Proper officer' of their local authority. Reports should be made within 3 days or verbally within 24 hours if the case is serious. Doctors should not wait for laboratory confirmation before making a report.
The list of notifiable diseases on the HPA website as of October 2011 is:
- Acute encephalitis
- Acute meningitis
- Acute poliomyelitis
- Acute infectious hepatitis
- Anthrax
- Botulism
- Brucellosis
- Cholera
- Diphtheria
- Enteric fever (typhoid or parathyohoid fever)
- Food poisoning
- Haemolytic uraemic syndrome
- Infectious bloody diarrhoea
- Invasive group A streptococcal disease and scarlet fever
- Legionnaire’s Disease
- Leprosy
- Malaria
- Measles
- Meningococcal septicaemia
- Mumps
- Plague
- Rabies
- Rubella
- SARS
- Smallpox
- Tetanus
- Tuberculosis
- Typhus
- Viral haemorrhagic fever
- Whooping cough
- Yellow fever
Reference:
