Health Protection Yorkshire and Humber (Y&H)
Welcome to Yorkshire and the Humber Health Protection Team (Y&H HPT) and thank you for reporting a notifiable disease.
To report an URGENT notifiable disease to Y&H HPT, please ring 0300 3030234 in or out of hours (see further details below).
To report all other notifiable diseases to Y&H HPT, please use our new online service: report a notifiable disease.
The Y&H HPT is piloting a new service for reporting notifiable diseases. The new service follows GOV.UK design standards and improves the overall reporting process. It includes multiple opportunities to give feedback and inform the future of the service.
Please send any questions about the new service to yorkshirehumberhpt@ukhsa.gov.uk.
If you think your patient may live outside of Yorkshire and Humber and you need help finding your local HPT please 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 ring 0300 3030234 in or out of hours.
To check if a notification is urgent, please click here.
All URGENT cases should be reported, by PHONE, within 24 hours as there is often a CRITICAL WINDOW OF TIME within which effective public health control measures can be implemented. If incidents occur late at night or in the early hours of the morning, please consider if notification can wait until the following morning. All phone notifications should be followed up by a written or online notification using report a notifiable disease within 3 days. ROUTINE cases should be notified in writing or online using report a notifiable disease within 3 days
To contact the Yorkshire and Humber Health Protection Team using a webform, please click here
Y&H HPT How to guidance
This section provides guidance on how to complete a pernasal swab (Pertussis/Whooping Cough), complete a salivary swab (Measles, Mumps and Rubella) and complete a faecal sample
