What we want with this disease is a very rapid form of notification with the bureaucracy of the statutory notification system, and that's how we've detected our cases so far.

BBC: INTERVIEW WITH SIR LIAM DONALDSON, CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER

Historically, the most common form of emergency notification has been reverse 911.

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The lack of a notification center, combined with an interface that periodically overwhelms function with form (such as the highly stylized but limited email view), only compounds problems if it's genuinely vital that you spot and deal with an emergency in minutes.

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It's a very traditional system, it's based on form-filling, aggregating quarterly returns, and it's suffered over the years from under-notification.

BBC: INTERVIEW WITH SIR LIAM DONALDSON, CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER