What are notifiable diseases?

Notification of infectious diseases, or NOIDS is the term used to refer to the statutory duties for reporting notifiable diseases in the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 and the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010.

Registered medical practitioners in England and Wales have a statutory duty to notify their local health protection team of suspected cases of certain diseases.  The best way to do this is to complete the form attached to the email that linked to this page and send it to:

Kent – phe.kenthpt@nhs.net

Surrey & Sussex – phe.sshpu@nhs.net

Hampshire IOW – phe.hiow@nhs.net

Thames Valley – phe.thamesvalley@nhs.net

Completing all sections of the form is really important especially the patients postcode and immunisation status (if applicable to the notification). If you have any questions about the form or would like to be sent a copy, your local health protection team will be happy to help.

Diseases notifiable to local authority proper officers under the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010:

• Acute encephalitis
• Acute infectious hepatitis
• Acute meningitis
• Acute poliomyelitis
• Anthrax
• Botulism
• Brucellosis
• Cholera
• COVID-19
• Diphtheria
• Enteric fever (typhoid or paratyphoid fever)
• Food poisoning
• Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS)
• Infectious bloody diarrhoea
• Invasive group A streptococcal disease
• Legionnaires’ disease
• Leprosy
• Malaria
• Measles
• Meningococcal septicaemia
• Monkeypox
• Mumps
• Plague
• Rabies
• Rubella
• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
• Scarlet fever
• Smallpox
• Tetanus
• Tuberculosis
• Typhus
• Viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF)
• Whooping cough
• Yellow fever

Report other diseases that may present significant risk to human health under the category ‘other significant disease’.

UKHSA publishes NOIDS data weekly here: Notifiable diseases: weekly reports for 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)