Notifiable Diseases Flashcards
Is HIV a notifiable disease?
No
Who does a clinician have a statutory duty to report notifiable diseases to?
Report notifiable diseases to the Proper Officer at the Local Health Protection Team
How soon do doctors need to report notifiable diseases?
Within 72 hours of seeing the case.
Within 24 hours if an emergency
What diseases were removed from the list of notifiable diseases in 2010?
- Dysentery
- Ophthalmia neonatorum
- Leptospirosis
- Relapsing fever
Do you need to wait for lab confirmation?
No, a clinical diagnosis is sufficient.
What does the Local Health Protection team do once you have notified them?
The Local Health Protection Team then has 72 hours to pass the information on to Public Health England
Where can you find information for your local protection team?
On the Public Health England website.
Name the notifiable diseases from A-L
- 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
Name the notifiable diseases from M-Z
- Malaria
- Measles
- Meningococcal septicaemia
- Mumps
- Plague
- Rabies
- Rubella
- SARS
- Scarlet fever
- Smallpox
- Tetanus
- Tuberculosis
- Typhus
- Viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF)
- Whooping cough
- Yellow fever
