Outbreak/ incident reporting

 

Please use this page to report an outbreak/ incident in your setting to the Yorkshire & Humber Health Protection Team. An outbreak is defined as an incident in which 2 or more people are experiencing similar illnesses linked by time or place.

Reported outbreaks/ incidents requiring urgent public health advice will be prioritised and therefore, you may not receive a phone call response. Please be assured that your notification will be received and triaged.

 

Adult Social Care Settings

Diarrhoea and/or vomiting

To report outbreaks of Diarrhoea and/or Vomiting, please report using the Y&H webform

Please see the following links for further guidance:

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

 

Respiratory

To report respiratory outbreaks such as Influenza, Covid-19 and Acute Respiratory Infections (ARIs), please report using our new online reporting tool 'Report an Outbreak'.

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

 

Scabies

To report outbreaks of Scabies, please report using the Y&H webform

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

Please contact your local IPC team if required.

 

To report outbreaks of any other infections not mentioned above, please use the Y&H webform

 

Educational Settings

 Please use the Y&H 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. 

You many also find this resource useful: 

Managing specific infectious diseases: A to Z

 

Other Settings

To report outbreaks in any other settings not mentioned above, please report using the Y&H webform

 

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

Please use our online notification system at 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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