Notifiable diseases in the United Kingdom

A notifiable disease is one which the law requires to be reported to government authorities.

In England and Wales, notification of infectious diseases is a statutory duty for registered medical practitioners and laboratories, under the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 and (in England) the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010. Similar provision, albeit with a different list of diseases, is made for Wales in the Health Protection (Notification) (Wales) Regulations 2010.^[1]Medical practitioners are required to notify their local authority of diseases on the list in writing within three days, or if the situation is urgent, by telephone within 24 hours.^[2] For Scotland, similar provision is made by the Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008.^[3]

List of notifiable diseases

The diseases notifiable in England to local authorities under the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010 are:^[4]

Acute encephalitis
Acute infectious hepatitis
Acute poliomyelitis
Anthrax
Botulism
Brucellosis
Cholera
COVID-19
Diphtheria
Enteric fever
Food poisoning
Hemolytic uremic syndrome
Infectious bloody diarrhoea
Invasive group A streptococcal disease
Legionnaire's disease
Leprosy
Malaria
Measles
Meningococcal sepsis
Mpox
Mumps
Plague
Rabies
Rubella
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
Scarlet fever
Smallpox
Tetanus
Tuberculosis
Typhus
Viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF)
Whooping cough
Yellow fever

List of notifiable organisms

The causative organisms which the laboratories shall notify to the proper authority under the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010 are:^{[citation needed]}