Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 53152

Malaria: Disease Control

Tabled: 19 May 2025
Answered: 28 May 2025

Question

Anneliese Dodds

Labour (Co-op)Oxford East

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to ensure that malaria cases reported to the Malaria Reference Laboratory are also notified to a proper officer.

Answer

Ashley Dalton
Malaria is designated as a notifiable disease under the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010, which places a statutory duty on all registered medical practitioners in England to notify a proper officer if they treat a patient they know, or su...

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