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Document control Name of Document: Version: 6 File location\document name: Date of this version: February 2012 Produced by: Reviewed by: Synopsis and Outcomes of Consultation Undertaken: Synopsis and Outcomes of Equality & Diversity Impact Assessment Board/committee approval at meeting on: Publication date: Distribute to: Date distribution completed: Due for review by Board/committee no later than: Enquiries to: Infection Prevention and Control Team IPACC JICC. Reference to key guidance documents No specific issues. National EIA gives more details on measures to reduce HCAIs. JICC 24 March 2009 JICC IPACC 2/2012 Clinical staff February 2014 gyw-pct.infectionprevention@nhs.net Revision History Date Summary of changes Author(s) Number Feb 2012 Logo changed, HPU contact details changed IPCS 6 Approvals Committee Date Number IPACC 22/2/2012 6 2

CONTENTS PAGE 1. Introduction 4 2. Purpose and scope 4 3. Policy statement 4 4. Responsibilities 4 5. Policy monitoring 4 6. Review 4 7. Notifiable diseases 5 8. Notification procedures 6 9. Contact details for The Proper Officer 6 10. References 6 11. Author 6 12. Notification form 7 First issued: July 2006 Reviewed: November 2007, November 2008, March 2009, April 2010, February 2012 Next review date: February 2014 3

1. Introduction This guidance applies to all medical staff. Every NHS body under The Health Act 2006 must ensure so far as is reasonably practicable, patients staff and other persons are protected against risks of acquiring HCAIs... On 6 th April 2010 changes were made to the Public Health law, this new legislation adopts an all hazards approach. The new regulations specify the diseases that should be notified that is different from the list used until now. It also require notification of other infections or of contamination by chemicals or radiation which doctors believe present, or could present, a significant risk to human health. There are several additional notifiable infections; Legionnaire s disease, invasive group A streptococcal infection, haemolytic uraemic syndrome, botulism, SARS, brucellosis and infectious bloody diarrhoea 2. Purpose and scope This policy is for all medical staff employed by East Coast Community Healthcare CIC, to enable them to understand the principles of formal notification. 3. Policy Statement This policy will be implemented to ensure adherence to safe practice and to conform with national statute. 4. Responsibilities It is the responsibility of all staff to ensure that they adhere to best practice 5. Policy monitoring It is the responsibility of all department heads/professional leads to ensure that the staff they manage adhere to this policy. 6. Review This policy will be reviewed by the Infection Prevention and Control Team. 4

7. SCHEDULE 1 Notifiable Diseases Acute encephalitis Acute meningitis Acute poliomyelitis Acute infectious hepatitis Anthrax Botulism Brucellosis Cholera Diphtheria Enteric fever (typhoid or paratyphoid fever) Food poisoning Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) Infectious bloody diarrhoea Invasive group A streptococcal disease and scarlet fever Legionnaires Disease Leprosy Malaria Measles Meningococcal septicaemia Mumps Plague Rabies Rubella SARS Smallpox Tetanus Tuberculosis Typhus Viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF) Whooping cough Yellow fever 5

8. Notification Procedures 9. Contact details for the Proper Officer: All notifications should continue to be made in writing. The recommended new form and list of diseases is attached below. In addition, for urgent notification of matters of serious public health significance, the proper officers may be notified by telephone on a 24 hour basis. During office hours they can be contacted on 01842 765260. Outside office hours the proper officer can be reached via Public Health on call rota, dialling in the following numbers: Norfolk 01603 481210, Suffolk 01603 419800 and Cambridgeshire 01603 481221. The only change to reporting parameters is the requirement to record patients ethnicity. If using the old forms, this should be entered in the box marked any other relevant details. The criteria for notification are as below. Registered medical practitioners (RMPs) attending patients are required to notify the proper officer of the local authority, in which they attended the patient, of: cases of notifiable infectious diseases in Schedule 1 to the Notification Regulations (attached); cases of other infections not included in Schedule 1 if they present, or could present, significant harm to human health (e.g. emerging or new infections); cases of contamination, such as with chemicals or radiation, that may present or could present significant harm to human health; cases of patients who die with, but not necessarily because of, a notifiable disease or other infectious disease or contamination that presents, or could present, or that presented or could have presented significant harm to human health. Notification of infections not included in Schedule 1 and contamination are expected to be exceptional occurrences. Factors the RMP may wish to consider in deciding whether to notify a case of infection that is not included in Schedule 1 or a case of contamination include: the risk of transmission or spread to others and the potential to cause significant harm to human health Please consult your local health protection unit if you have any queries about whether to notify a case under these new regulations. RMPs should not wait for laboratory confirmation of the suspected infection or contamination before notification. They must notify cases if they have reasonable clinical suspicion that their patient is suffering from a notifiable disease or other relevant infection or contamination. If a RMP has good reason to believe that another RMP has already notified the case, they are not required to notify. However, prior notification of the causative agent by a diagnostic laboratory does not remove the RMP s responsibility to notify a notifiable disease or relevant infection. Changes in the law regarding the separate notification systems in place for diagnostic laboratories will come into force in October 2010. 10. References Department of Health (2006) revised 2008 The Health Act. DoH London 285524 Department of Health (2008) The Health and Social Care Act. DoH London_ 292435 Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984, Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010:http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2010/uksi_20100659_en_1; and, Health Protection Legislation (England) Guidance 2010 http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/publicationsandstatistics/publications/publicationspolicyandguidance/d H_114510 Public Health (Control of Diseases) Regulations 1988 13. Author Infection Prevention and Control Team 6

NOTIFICATION FORM To be completed by a Registered Medical Practitioner Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010: Notification to the Proper Officer of the Local Authority Registered Medical Practitioner reporting the case Name Address ON COMPLETION SEND TO: NS&C HPU Thetford Healthy Living Centre Croxton Road Thetford IP24 1JD Post code Contact number Date of Notification Notifiable Disease Disease, infection or contamination Date of onset of symptoms Date of diagnosis Date of death (if patient died) Index Case Details First name Surname Gender (M/F) Date of birth Ethnicity NHS number Home address Post code Current residence if not home address Postcode Contact number Occupation (if relevant) Work/education address (if relevant) Post code Contact number Overseas travel, if relevant (destinations and dates) 7