Notifiable disease

The following diseases are notifiable under the Public Health (Infectious Diseases Regulations 1988) and notification is the responsibility of the clinician in charge of the patient.

Written notification must be made within 3 days of the Registered Medical Practitioner suspecting or diagnosing a notifiable condition, by mail or by fax to Greater Manchester Health Protection Unit, fax no. 0161 707 9686. For urgent cases, telephone notification to Greater Manchester Health Protection Unit on 0161 786 6710 is required within 24 hours.

The Notifications Supervisor Greater Manchester Health Protection Unit Floor 7B, Peel House Albert Street Eccles M30 0NJ Tel: 0161 786 6710 Fax: 0161 707 9686

Registered medical practitioner notification form template

The following are Notifiable Diseases under the Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations, 1988:

Acute encephalitis Acute poliomyelitis Anthrax Cholera Diphtheria Dysentery Food poisoning Leprosy (notified to CDSC) Leptospirosis Malaria Measles Meningitis   meningococcal   pneumococcal   haemophilus influenzae   viral   other specified   unspecified Meningococcal septicaemia (without meningitis) Mumps

Ophthalmia neonatorum Paratyphoid fever Plague Rabies Relapsing fever Rubella Scarlet fever Smallpox Tetanus Tuberculosis (A special form titled "Notification and data collection for enhanced Tuberculosis surveillance in England, Wales and Northern Ireland".) Typhoid fever Typhus fever Viral haemorrhagic fever Viral hepatitis   Hepatitis A   Hepatitis B   Hepatitis C   Other Whooping Cough Yellow fever

In addition all cases of HIV infection and/or AIDS are notified on a special form titled "HIV, AIDS or HIV death report" which is normally done by Professor Denning, if he sees the patient, or at the Infectious Diseases Unit at North Manchester General Hospital.

Healthcare Associated Infections

Mandatory reporting of MRSA Bacteraemia, Clostridum Difficile and VRE figures is made to the Health Protection Agency.

The Coroner has indicated that he would like all deaths associated with a hospital acquired infection reported to him.