Public Health
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GPwSI
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Organisations:
| Name | Location | Tel | Referral Criteria | How to refer |
| Notifiable Diseases | Medical Officer for
Environmental Health Department of Environmental Protection & Waste Management 6th Floor Jacobs Well Bradford BD1 5RW |
01274 434 392 (an answer phone is available out of hours) Fax: 01274 740 839 |
Look at the disease list below | ●GP needs to complete an official Notification Form |
Notes:
NOTIFIABLE DISEASES
(a) Diseases in which notification
initiates standard contact-tracing procedures and/or enables public concern to
be managed appropriately:
●Meningitis, including meningococcal septicaemia with our without meningitis
●Tuberculosis
●Viral Hapatitis ( A, B, C etc.)
(b) Gastrointestinal infections in which notification initiates further
Investigation by Environmental Health Officers or Consultants in Public Health
Medicine:
●Food poisoning or suspected food poisoning
●Dysentery (amoebic or bacillary)
●Typhoid or paratyphoid fever
(c) Some diseases included in the routine childhood immunisation programme:
●Acute pyelonephritis
●Diptheria
●Tetanus
●Pertussis
●Measles
●Mumps
●Rubella
(d) Some other infections of current or historical public health
importance:
●Acute encephalitis
●Anthrax
●Leptospirosis
●Ophthalmia Neonatorum
●Scarlet Fever
(e) Some rare but potentially fatal communicable diseases, mainly associated
with overseas travel:
●Cholera
●Leprosy
●Malaria
●Plague
●Rabies
●Relapsing Fever
●Smallpox
●Typhus
●Viral haemorrhagic fever
●Yellow fever
RISK GROUPS:
A - People who have difficulties
implementing good personal hygiene
B - Children under 5 who attend groups
C - Food handlers
D - Health care workers in contract with susceptible people