Requirements

The Enhanced Surveillance of Tuberculosis in England & Wales has been operating since 1999, and records details of all confirmed or suspected cases of tuberculosis.

In North West region, this operates by all enhanced surveillance forms being sent directly to Health Protection Units for completion by Consultants in Communicable Disease. These completed forms are then forwarded to HPA NW RE unit where they are entered onto a centrally maintained database. The data are cleaned and audited regularly, and are submitted to HPA CDSC Colindale twice yearly to form part of the national data set.

Solution

Make TB data from year 2000 onwards available to be queried online, and also available for download to restricted users.