Y&H HPT Webform

UKHSA Yorkshire and Humber Health Protection Team

Tel: 0300 3030234

To complete our webform: Click here

 

Thank you for contacting the Yorkshire & Humber Health Protection Team, your enquiry is important to us, however, due to a high volume of enquiries and the ongoing management of high-risk cases and outbreaks/incidents, UKHSA are prioritising those that need immediate clinical support.  You will receive written information that will support your enquiry on completion of the webform.

Please use the webform to inform the UKHSA Health Protection Team of a new outbreak/incident of a notifiable disease in your setting.

 

Care Homes and other Care Settings, please see below:

 Please use the webform to report the following:

  • An incident in which 2 or more people experiencing a similar illness which are linked by time or place.

 

Please also see the below resources that you may find useful:

Diarrhoea and/or vomiting

Please see the following links for further guidance:

Diarrhoea and vomiting can be managed by reinforcing measures recommended in:

 

Respiratory

The current adult social care guidance in relation to respiratory infections can be found here:

 

Scabies

Please see the following link for guidance on the management of scabies in communal residential settings:

 

Educational Settings, please see below:

 Please use the webform to report the following:

  • If there is any concern about any pupil or staff member who are immunocompromised.     
  • Evidence of severe disease due to an infection, for example if a child, young person or staff member is admitted to hospital or there is a death[footnote 3] 
  • More than one infection circulating in the same group of children, young people and staff for example chicken pox and scarlet fever* 
  • An outbreak of serious or unusual/ high priority illness, e.g Meningococcal Meningitis, Measles, STEC 

*Please note, there is no requirement to report outbreaks of Chickenpox, unless another infection is also circulating. See the relevant guidance here. 

 

Please also see the below resource that you may find useful: 

Advice on managing specific diseases can be found here: Managing specific infectious diseases: A to Z

 

If you are a Registered Medical Practitioner and want to make a notification of infectious disease (NOID)

Please enter our online notification system via the secure link here

If you think your patient may live outside of Yorkshire and Humber and you need help finding your local HPT use the postcode lookup.

For some infections, public health measures to prevent onward spread of the disease need to be taken immediately. For urgent notifications please call us on 0300 3030234 in or out of hours. To check if a notification is urgent, click here. 

 

 

 

 


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