Notification of Infectious Diseases to UKHSA
From April 2025 the list of notifiable diseases has been expanded to include:
- Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)
- Influenza of zoonotic origin
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Congenital syphilis
- Neonatal herpes
- Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) or acute flaccid myelitis (AFM)
- Disseminated gonococcal infection (DGI)
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)
See full list below
Notification
Registered medical practitioners must report a notifiable disease to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA, previously Public Health England)
Notifiable diseases are certain infections that may present a risk to human health.
Check the list of notifiable diseases
How to report a suspected notifiable disease
If the case is an urgent notifiable disease, you must report it by telephone to your local UKHSA health protection team within 24 hours. This is to discuss actions to protect public health
Report all cases on the Report a notifiable disease online service within 3 days
Do not wait for laboratory confirmation of the disease. By law, you must report any suspicion of a notifiable disease
Diseases you must report
You must report any suspected case of a notifiable disease
| Notifiable disease | Whether likely to be routine or urgent |
|---|---|
| Acute encephalitis | Routine |
| Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) or Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) | Urgent |
| Acute infectious hepatitis (A/B/C) | Urgent |
| Acute meningitis | Urgent |
| Acute poliomyelitis | Urgent |
| Anthrax | Urgent |
| Botulism | Urgent |
| Brucellosis | Routine. Urgent if acquired in UK |
| Chickenpox (varicella) | Routine |
| Cholera | Urgent |
| Congenital syphilis | Routine |
| COVID-19 | Routine |
| Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) | Routine |
| Disseminated gonococcal infection (DGI) | Routine |
| Diphtheria | Urgent |
| Enteric fever (typhoid or paratyphoid fever) | Urgent |
| Food poisoning | Routine. Urgent if part of a cluster or outbreak |
| Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) | Urgent |
| Infectious bloody diarrhoea | Urgent |
| Influenza of zoonotic origin | Urgent |
| Invasive group A streptococcal disease | Urgent |
| Legionnaires’ disease | Urgent |
| Leprosy | Routine |
| Malaria | Routine. Urgent if acquired in UK |
| Measles | Urgent |
| Meningococcal septicaemia | Urgent |
| Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) | Urgent |
| Mpox (previously known as monkeypox) | Urgent |
| Mumps | Routine |
| Neonatal herpes | Routine |
| Plague | Urgent |
| Rabies | Urgent |
| Rubella | Routine |
| Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) | Urgent |
| Scarlet fever | Routine |
| Smallpox | Urgent |
| Tetanus | Routine. Urgent if associated with injecting drug use |
| Tuberculosis | Routine. Urgent if healthcare worker, or suspected cluster or multi-drug resistant |
| Typhus | Routine |
| Viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF) | Urgent |
| Whooping cough | Urgent if diagnosed in acute phase. Routine in later diagnosis |
| Yellow fever | Routine. Urgent if acquired in UK |
A case may be urgent if:
- it’s part of a current outbreak
- the suspected disease is uncommon in the UK
- the suspected disease spreads easily, or its spread is hard to control
- the patient is high risk, for example because of their age or job
If you are not sure if the case is urgent, telephone your local UKHSA health protection team.
You can download and print the list of notifiable diseases on a poster for your practice or setting
Reporting other infectious diseases
You can use the Report a notifiable disease online service to report any other suspected infectious disease if you think it may present a significant risk to human health. Select the category ‘other significant disease’.
Reporting other public health hazards
To report other public health hazards to UKHSA, such as chemical or radiation exposure, contact your local UKHSA health protection team
If you need help, contact your local UKHSA Health Protection Team:
Contact details:
UKHSA West Midlands Health Protection Team
Level 2 Zone 1, 23 Stephenson Street,
Birmingham,
B2 4BH
Phone: 0344 225 3560 option 2
Out of hours for health professionals only: please phone 01384 679 031
Email BAT@ukhsa.gov.uk for non-clinical enquiries
Email phe.wmnoids@nhs.net for clinical notifications of infectious diseases
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