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Notifications of infectious diseases (NOIDs) and reportable causative organisms

Dr Rajesh Varma

Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010

Registered medical practitioners (RMPs) have a statutory duty to notify the ‘proper officer’ at their local council or local health protection team (HPT) of suspected cases of certain infectious diseases.

  1. Complete a notification form immediately on diagnosis of a suspected notifiable disease.

  2. Don’t wait for laboratory confirmation of a suspected infection or contamination before notification

  3. Send the form to the proper officer within 3 days, or notify them verbally within 24 hours if the case is urgent.

List of notifiable diseases

  • 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

  • Malaria

  • Measles

  • Meningococcal septicaemia

  • 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’.

List of notifiable organisms (causative agents)

  • Bacillus anthracis

  • Bacillus cereus (only if associated with food poisoning)

  • Bordetella pertussis

  • Borrelia spp

  • Brucella spp

  • Burkholderia mallei

  • Burkholderia pseudomallei

  • Campylobacter spp

  • Chikungunya virus

  • Chlamydophila psittaci

  • Clostridium botulinum

  • Clostridium perfringens (only if associated with food poisoning)

  • Clostridium tetani

  • Corynebacterium diphtheriae

  • Corynebacterium ulcerans

  • Coxiella burnetii

  • Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus

  • Cryptosporidium spp

  • Dengue virus

  • Ebola virus

  • Entamoeba histolytica

  • Francisella tularensis

  • Giardia lamblia

  • Guanarito virus

  • Haemophilus influenzae (invasive)

  • Hanta virus

  • Hepatitis A, B, C, delta, and E viruses

  • Influenza virus

  • Junin virus

  • Kyasanur Forest disease virus

  • Lassa virus

  • Legionella spp

  • Leptospira interrogans

  • Listeria monocytogenes

  • Machupo virus

  • Marburg virus

  • Measles virus

  • Mumps virus

  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex

  • Neisseria meningitidis

  • Omsk haemorrhagic fever virus

  • Plasmodium falciparum, vivax, ovale, malariae, knowlesi

  • Polio virus (wild or vaccine types)

  • Rabies virus (classical rabies and rabies-related lyssaviruses)

  • Rickettsia spp

  • Rift Valley fever virus

  • Rubella virus

  • Sabia virus

  • Salmonella spp

  • SARS coronavirus

  • Shigella spp

  • Streptococcus pneumoniae (invasive)

  • Streptococcus pyogenes (invasive)

  • Varicella zoster virus

  • Variola virus

  • Verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli (including E.coli O157)

  • Vibrio cholerae

  • West Nile Virus

  • Yellow fever virus

  • Yersinia pestis