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Notifiable diseases in the United Kingdom

Notifiable diseases in the United Kingdom is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Notifiable diseases in the United Kingdom rather than just read about it. In short: 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.

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Reference excerpt

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. 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. For Scotland, similar provision is made by the Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008.

List of notifiable diseases

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

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 Legionnaires' 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:

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

See also UK statutory notification system

References

External links Procedure for notification of diseases

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Notifiable diseases in the United Kingdom

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Notifiable diseases in the United Kingdom claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In biology, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Notifiable diseases in the United Kingdom before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Notifiable diseases in the United Kingdom ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Notifiable diseases in the United Kingdom

In research: Notifiable diseases in the United Kingdom appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Notifiable diseases in the United Kingdom in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Notifiable diseases in the United Kingdom is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Health law in the United Kingdom, Infectious disease-related lists, Lists of notifiable diseases, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Notifiable diseases in the United Kingdom outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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