Notifiable Diseases

Notifiable diseases

Use the up to date list of notifiable diseases which is available at: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/notifiable-diseases-and-causative-organisms-how-to-report

Notifiable organisms (causative agents)

Use the up to date list of notifiable organisms which is available at: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/notifiable-diseases-and-causative-organisms-how-to-report

• The patient’s doctor (or clinical team) is responsible for notifying the case to the relevant authority.
• Prior notification of the disease/causative organism by the diagnostic laboratory does not remove the doctor’s responsibility to notify a case.
• When a patient is transferred from one doctor to another, it is the responsibility of the first doctor who forms a clinical suspicion that the patient suffers from a notifiable disease or infection/contamination by a causative organism to notify the case.
• If laboratory results disprove the clinical diagnosis later, the doctor is not required to de-notify the case. However, they should contact the proper officer or HPT if they made administrative errors in the notification process.
• When a statutory notification has been made it must be documented in the patient’s clinical notes.

• Complete the notification form immediately on diagnosis of a suspected notifiable disease.
• Do not wait for laboratory confirmation or results of other investigations to report a case.
• Report all cases if there is reasonable clinical suspicion that the patient is suffering from a notifiable disease or infection/contamination by a notifiable organism.
• If the case is an urgent notifiable disease, you must report it by telephone to your local UKHSA Health Protection Team within 24 hours.
• Report ALL cases using the Report a notifiable disease Online Service within 3 days.
• If you cannot use the online service, complete the PDF notifiable disease form and send to your local UKHSA Health Protection Team by email or post.

Send the form to the proper officer of the local authority or to the local HPT within 3 days or notify them 

Oxfordshire local UKHSA Health Protection Team: 

Thames Valley HPT (South East),
Chilton,
OX11 0RQ

Phone (including out of hours urgent advice): 0344 225 3861 

Generic email: SE.AcuteResponse@ukhsa.gov.uk 

For emails containing personal identifiable information: phe.thamesvalley@nhs.net