Report an urgent notifiable disease case or chemical or radiation exposure within 24 hours by telephone to the South London UKHSA HPT: 0300 303 0450
All cases must be reported online within 3 days
South London HPT
📞 0300 303 0450 (Including urgent advice & notifications)
✉️ Enquires containing patient information: phe.london.region@nhs.net
✉️ Other Enquiries: london.region@ukhsa.gov.uk
What to report
Notifications are based on clinical suspicion, and laboratory confirmation is not required.
By law, registered medical practitioners must report any suspicion of a notifiable disease.
- Any suspected notifiable diseases (see below)
- Any suspected infectious disease that may present a significant risk to human health
- Any radiation or chemical exposure, for example to carbon monoxide, lead or mercury, that may present a significant risk to human health
What is urgent?
- Part of a current outbreak
- Suspected disease is uncommon in the UK
- Suspected disease spreads easily, or its spread is hard to control
- The patient is high risk, due to their age or job
- Any of the urgent notifiable diseases below
If you are unsure, it should be treated as urgent
Reporting procedure
Urgent notifiable diseases must be reported by phone within 24 hours
All cases (routine & urgent) should be notified with a written report within 3 days - It is good practice to complete these as soon as reasonably possible (See contact details above)
The UKHSA will complete a joint risk assessment, and where necessary:
- Provide public health advice
- Carry out contact tracing
- Encourage urgent vaccination
- Send diagnostic test kits
- Identify disease trends and risks
