Guidance

Legionnaires' disease: national surveillance scheme

The national surveillance scheme has a reporting form for Legionnaires' disease in England and Wales.

• From: UK Health Security Agency
• Published: 1 August 2010
• Last updated: 30 July 2026
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  1. 30 July 2026

     Reporting form updated to match wording with International Health Regulations

  2. 9 August 2023

     Reporting form updated with new contact details and question on boilers.

  3. 2 June 2020

     Reporting form updated to include COVID-19.

  4. 5 April 2018

     Added new versions of the 'National Surveillance form'.

  5. 28 December 2016

     Uploaded new version of the reporting forms.

  6. 30 June 2016

     Document entitled "Guidance on the control and prevention of Legionnaires’ disease in England Technical paper 1 – disease surveillance" has been removed in order to avoid confusion while the updated version is being created.

  7. 25 August 2015

     Updated the guidance on disease surveillance of Legionnaires' disease

  8. 6 August 2015

     Updated versions of the national surveillance scheme forms (PDF and Word versions).

  9. 1 August 2010

     First published.

Documents

National legionella surveillance scheme reporting form

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Details

The national surveillance scheme:

• detects clusters or outbreaks of legionella infection in England and Wales or abroad
• identifies sources of infection so that control measures can be applied to prevent further cases
• offers legionella surveillance information

Report all confirmed cases of Legionellosis to the national surveillance scheme for Legionnaires’ disease using this form.

For more information on reporting a site for travel-associated Legionnaires’ disease, see Manage a site investigation for travel-associated Legionnaires’ disease.