• Public health notification: legal duty of medical practitioners to notify health board (i.e. Public Health) on clinical suspicion of specified diseases or a ‘health risk state’ posing a significant public health risk
  • Notification in writing (including electronic transmission) within 3 days
  • Notification by phone as soon as reasonably practicable if ‘urgent’
• Notification based on reasonable clinical suspicion - should not await lab confirmation
• There are also notifiable organisms which labs have responsibility to report when detected