Notifiable diseases
Below is the list of notifiable diseases in the UK (updated April 2025)
| Notifiable disease | Whether likely to be routine or urgent |
|---|---|
| Acute encephalitis | Routine |
| Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP)/Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) | Urgent |
| Acute infectious hepatitis (A/B/C) | Urgent |
| Acute meningitis | Urgent |
| Acute poliomyelitis | Urgent |
| Anthrax | Urgent |
| Botulism | Urgent |
| Brucellosis | Routine. Urgent if acquired in UK |
| Chickenpox (varicella) | Routine |
| Cholera | Urgent |
| Congenital syphilis | Routine |
| COVID-19 | Routine |
| Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) | Routine |
| Disseminated gonococcal infection (DGI) | Routine |
| Diphtheria | Urgent |
| Enteric fever (typhoid or paratyphoid fever) | Urgent |
| Food poisoning | Routine. Urgent if part of a cluster or outbreak |
| Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) | Urgent |
| Infectious bloody diarrhoea | Urgent |
| Influenza of zoonotic origin | Urgent |
| Invasive group A streptococcal disease | Urgent |
| Legionnaires’ disease | Urgent |
| Leprosy | Routine |
| Malaria | Routine. Urgent if acquired in UK |
| Measles | Urgent |
| Meningococcal septicaemia | Urgent |
| Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) | Urgent |
| Mpox (previously known as monkeypox) | Urgent |
| Mumps | Routine |
| Neonatal herpes | Routine |
| Plague | Urgent |
| Rabies | Urgent |
| Rubella | Routine |
| Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) | Urgent |
| Scarlet fever | Routine |
| Smallpox | Urgent |
| Tetanus | Routine. Urgent if associated with injecting drug use |
| Tuberculosis | Routine. Urgent if healthcare worker, or suspected cluster or multi-drug resistant |
| Typhus | Routine |
| Viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF) | Urgent |
| Whooping cough | Urgent if diagnosed in acute phase. Routine in later diagnosis |
| Yellow fever | Routine. Urgent if acquired in UK |