The Health Protection (Notification) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
Mini Summary
The Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010
The Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010 place a duty on registered medical practitioners (i.e. doctors) to notify the local authority if they treat a patient they know or suspect to be infected or contaminated with specific infectious diseases. (This includes the “Coronavirus” (2019-nCoV)” or “COVID-19”).
Amendment
Hantavirus disease is added to the list of notifiable diseases in Schedule 1. Registered medical practitioners must now report suspected cases of Hantavirus, including hantavirus pulmonary / cardiopulmonary syndrome and haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome.
Duties
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