diff --git a/request-management-api/request_api/services/notifications/notificationconfig.py b/request-management-api/request_api/services/notifications/notificationconfig.py
index da099251d..7bcc08139 100644
--- a/request-management-api/request_api/services/notifications/notificationconfig.py
+++ b/request-management-api/request_api/services/notifications/notificationconfig.py
@@ -5,17 +5,30 @@
 import os
 from request_api.models.NotificationTypes import NotificationType
 from request_api.models.NotificationUserTypes import NotificationUserType
+notificationuserfile = open('common/notificationusertypes.json', encoding="utf8")
+notificationusertypes_cache = json.load(notificationuserfile)
+
+notificationfile = open('common/notificationtypes.json', encoding="utf8")
+notificationtypes_cache = json.load(notificationfile)
 
 class notificationconfig:
     """ Notfication config
 
     """
 
+    # This method is used to get the notification user type label
+    # It first tries to get the notification user type label from the cache
+    # If it is not found in the cache, it fetches it from the DB
     def getnotificationtypelabel(self, notificationtype):
-        id = NotificationType().getnotificationtypeid(notificationtype)
-        if id is not None:
-            return id['notificationtypelabel']
-        return 0
+        notificationtype_format = notificationtype.replace(" ", "").lower()
+        if notificationtype_format in notificationtypes_cache:
+            return notificationtypes_cache[notificationtype_format]['notificationtypelabel']
+        else:
+            print("Notification type not found in cache. Fetching from DB", notificationtype)
+            id = NotificationType().getnotificationtypeid(notificationtype)
+            if id is not None:
+                return id['notificationtypelabel']
+            return 0
     
     def getnotificationtypeid(self, notificationtype):
         id = NotificationType().getnotificationtypeid(notificationtype)
@@ -23,11 +36,19 @@ def getnotificationtypeid(self, notificationtype):
             return id['notificationtypeid']
         return 0
 
+    # This method is used to get the notification user type label
+    # It first tries to get the notification user type label from the cache
+    # If it is not found in the cache, it fetches it from the DB
     def getnotificationusertypelabel(self, notificationusertype):
-        id = NotificationUserType().getnotificationusertypesid(notificationusertype)
-        if id is not None:
-            return id['notificationusertypelabel']
-        return 0
+        notificationusertype_format = notificationusertype.replace(" ", "").lower()
+        if notificationusertype_format in notificationusertypes_cache:
+            return notificationusertypes_cache[notificationusertype_format]['notificationusertypelabel']
+        else:
+            print("Notification user type not found in cache. Fetching from DB", notificationusertype)
+            id = NotificationUserType().getnotificationusertypesid(notificationusertype)
+            if id is not None:
+                return id['notificationusertypelabel']
+            return 0
     
     def getnotificationusertypeid(self, notificationusertype):
         id = NotificationUserType().getnotificationusertypesid(notificationusertype)
diff --git a/request-management-api/request_api/services/notificationservice.py b/request-management-api/request_api/services/notificationservice.py
index 346659bd8..cd518d5e6 100644
--- a/request-management-api/request_api/services/notificationservice.py
+++ b/request-management-api/request_api/services/notificationservice.py
@@ -276,13 +276,8 @@ def __preparenotification(self, message, requesttype, notificationtype, userid,
             notification.idnumber ='U-00' + str(foirequest['requestid'])
             mutenotification = False
 
-        # in notificationtype remove space and make lower case
-        notificationtype_format = notificationtype.replace(" ", "").lower()
-        if notificationtype_format not in notificationtypes_cache:
-            print('Notification type not found in enum.', notificationtype)
-        else:
-            notification.notificationtypelabel =  notificationtypes_cache[notificationtype_format]['notificationtypelabel']
-            notification.notificationtypeid = notificationtypes_cache[notificationtype_format]['notificationtypeid'] 
+        notification.notificationtypelabel =  notificationconfig().getnotificationtypelabel(notificationtype)
+        notification.notificationtypeid = notificationconfig().getnotificationtypeid(notificationtype) 
         notification.axisnumber = foirequest["axisrequestid"]
         notification.version = foirequest["version"]        
         notification.createdby = userid