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Everyone is entitled to be treated with dignity and respect. The ability to live and work without prejudice is a fundamental right, regardless of your background, identity and experiences.

One of UNISON's main aims is to help workers fight for fairness and equality in the workplace and beyond. Challenging discrimination and winning equality is at the heart of everything UNISON does.

Besides the right not to be discriminated against or bullied, fair treatment also includes dignity at work, access to opportunities and equal working conditions and pay.

The right to fairness and equality

Employees are protected against discrimination and unfair treatment by the Equality Act and relevant regulations in Northern Ireland. The Equality Act contains something called the public sector equality duty, which requires public bodies to actively promote equality and eliminate discrimination.

If a member has been discriminated against or treated unfairly at work, UNISON negotiates with employers on a member's behalf, attends tribunals, offers legal help and makes employers aware of the law. The Equality Act makes it unlawful for employers to treat you unfairly because of:

age;

disability;

gender reassignment;

marriage and civil partnership;

pregnancy and maternity;

race;

religion or belief;

sex;

sexual orientation.

It is also unlawful for employers to have a rule, policy or practice that someone is less likely to be able to fulfil than other employees because of one of the reasons above.

How UNISON fights for fairness and equality

We encourage all members to join the discussion on how to provide public services and how equality can be promoted when delivering them.

UNISON has a history of winning on equality. We continue to fight against discrimination wherever we encounter it and regularly help members challenge unequal or unfair treatment, including all forms of prejudice and discrimination, racism, bullying and harassment and equal pay.

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Everyone is entitled to be treated with dignity and respect. The ability to live and work without prejudice is a fundamental right, regardless of your background, identity and experiences. One of UNISON's main aims is to help workers fight for fairness and equality in the workplace and beyond.

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Black members in UNISON work to improve equality in the workplace and challenge racism and discrimination.

They have many of the same concerns as other members regarding access to employment, pay, promotion and training. However, racist discrimination can deepen the impact of problems faced in the workplace.

UNISON's Black members' group campaigns for equality in the workplace and the wider community. Find out how the group is organised, its role within UNISON and how to get involved.

This section is about the key issues affecting Black members. Each key issue explains the facts behind the issue, what UNISON is doing and how you can get involved. You will also find news articles, useful resources and events.

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Black members equality | Fighting for fairness and equality | UNISON National

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Black members in UNISON work to improve equality in the workplace and challenge racism and discrimination. They have many of the same concerns as other members regarding access to employment, pay, promotion and training. However, racist discrimination can deepen the impact of problems faced in the workplace.

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Equality-and-diversity a Trade Union Priority

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Public Health England ( PHE) aims to detect possible outbreaks of disease and epidemics as rapidly as possible. Accuracy of diagnosis is secondary, and since 1968 clinical suspicion of a notifiable infection is all that's required.

'Notification of infectious diseases' is the term used to refer to the statutory duties for reporting notifiable diseases in the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 and the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010.

Registered medical practitioners: report notifiable diseases

Registered medical practitioners ( RMPs) have a statutory duty to notify the 'proper officer' at their local council or local health protection team ( HPT) of suspected cases of certain infectious diseases.

Complete a notification form immediately on diagnosis of a suspected notifiable disease. Don't wait for laboratory confirmation of a suspected infection or contamination before notification. Consult the for further information.

Send the form to the proper officer within 3 days, or notify them verbally within 24 hours if the case is urgent by phone, letter, encrypted email or secure fax machine.

If you need help, contact your local HPT using the postcode lookup.

For more detail on reporting responsibilities of RMPs, see page 14 of Health Protection Legislation (England) Guidance 2010.

All proper officers must pass the entire notification to PHE within 3 days of a case being notified, or within 24 hours for urgent cases.

List of notifiable diseases

Diseases notifiable to local authority proper officers under the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010:

Acute encephalitis

Acute infectious hepatitis

Acute meningitis

Acute poliomyelitis

Anthrax

Botulism

Brucellosis

Cholera

COVID-19

Diphtheria

Enteric fever (typhoid or paratyphoid fever)

Food poisoning

Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS)

Infectious bloody diarrhoea

Invasive group A streptococcal disease

Legionnaires' disease

Leprosy

Malaria

Measles

Meningococcal septicaemia

Mumps

Plague

Rabies

Rubella

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

Scarlet fever

Smallpox

Tetanus

Tuberculosis

Typhus

Viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF)

Whooping cough

Yellow fever

Report other diseases that may present significant risk to human health under the category 'other significant disease'.

Laboratories: report notifiable organisms (causative agents)

All laboratories in England performing a primary diagnostic role must notify PHE on the confirmation of a notifiable organism.

Read the guidance for diagnostic laboratories on .

For more details on the responsibilities of laboratories, see page 28 of Health Protection Legislation (England) Guidance 2010.

List of notifiable organisms (causative agents)

Causative agents notifiable to PHE under the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010:

Bacillus anthracis

Bacillus cereus (only if associated with food poisoning)

Bordetella pertussis

Borrelia spp

Brucella spp

Burkholderia mallei

Burkholderia pseudomallei

Campylobacter spp

Chikungunya virus

Chlamydophila psittaci

Clostridium botulinum

Clostridium perfringens (only if associated with food poisoning)

Clostridium tetani

Corynebacterium diphtheriae

Corynebacterium ulcerans

Coxiella burnetii

Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus

Cryptosporidium spp

Dengue virus

Ebola virus

Entamoeba histolytica

Francisella tularensis

Giardia lamblia

Guanarito virus

Haemophilus influenzae (invasive)

Hanta virus

Hepatitis A, B, C, delta, and E viruses

Influenza virus

Junin virus

Kyasanur Forest disease virus

Lassa virus

Legionella spp

Leptospira interrogans

Listeria monocytogenes

Machupo virus

Marburg virus

Measles virus

Mumps virus

Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex

Neisseria meningitidis

Omsk haemorrhagic fever virus

Plasmodium falciparum, vivax, ovale, malariae, knowlesi

Polio virus (wild or vaccine types)

Rabies virus (classical rabies and rabies-related lyssaviruses)

Rickettsia spp

Rift Valley fever virus

Rubella virus

Sabia virus

Salmonella spp

Shigella spp

Streptococcus pneumoniae (invasive)

Streptococcus pyogenes (invasive)

Varicella zoster virus

Variola virus

Verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli (including E.coli O157)

Vibrio cholerae

West Nile Virus

Yellow fever virus

Yersinia pestis

Reporting of SARS-COV-2 test results to Public Health England

Background

All laboratories in England performing a primary diagnostic role must notify PHE of specified causative agents (organisms), in accordance the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010. SARS-COV-2 is the notifiable causative agent for COVID-19. All registered medical practitioners in England must notify the proper officer of the relevant local authority or the local PHE health protection team of specified infectious diseases, in accordance with the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 and the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010. All proper officers must disclose the entire notification to PHE. COVID-19 is a notifiable infectious disease.

PHE is an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). It fulfils the Secretary of State's statutory duties to protect health and address health inequalities and executes the Secretary of State's power to promote the health and wellbeing of the nation. PHE 's annual remit letter from the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Prevention, Public Health and Primary Care sets out its responsibility to protect the public's health from infectious diseases and other public health hazards.

PHE has approval from the Secretary of State to process confidential information associated with notifiable causative agents and notifiable infectious diseases without patient consent under Regulation 3 of the Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002.

Specification for new data feeds

To support the reporting of the required infectious diseases, PHE has developed the Second-Generation Surveillance System (SGSS). This is the national surveillance system that hold all test results. To enable to receipt of the data, the following fields are required:

first name

surname

date of birth

gender

postcode

contact telephone number (preferably mobile)

contact email

ethnicity

sample taken date

sample number

sample type

test method (for example PCR)

result (such as COVID-19 +ve/-ve)

result date

name of laboratory

other - please detail if other fields are available.

Transfer method

The preferred method of receiving the data is as a CSV file via sftp. In order to set up a sftp account PHE need to have a named contact and a public ssh key.

To establish a new reporting feed to PHE contact SGSS.Helpdesk@phe.gov.uk.

Subscribe to reports

PHE publishes reports on the numbers of laboratory notifications received. PHE's Information Management section collates the returns of registered medical practitioner ( RMP) notifications and laboratory causative agents nationally and publishes analyses of local and national trends weekly.

Subscribe to reports by email.
See notifications of infectious diseases and causative agents report
References

For data older than 1 year see the NOIDs collection.

Health protection legislation in England gives public authorities powers and duties to prevent and control risks to human health from infection or contamination, including by chemicals and radiation.

See the revised measures within the amended Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 and its accompanying regulations.

The legislation adopts an all hazards approach, and, in addition to the specified list of infectious diseases, there is a requirement to notify cases of other infections or contamination which could present a significant risk to human health.

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