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Dept of Health

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Mr. Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the infection rates of MRSA have been by age groups in (a) the London borough of Havering, (b) Greater London and (c) the United Kingdom for the past five years. [209439] Miss Melanie Johnson: The Health Protection Agency's voluntary reporting system is the only national dataset providing information on methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections by age. Information is not available by London borough. Available data for the London region and England, Wales and Northern Ireland is shown in the following tables. Table 1: Rates of MRSA bloodstream infections by age group: London region, 1999 to 2003 (number of cases per 100,000 population)1 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Age group 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 Up to 1 13.40 15.56 10.07 11.70 22.34 1 to 4 0.50 1.02 -- 2.11 1.06 5 to 9 0.84 0.85 0.87 -- 0.44 10 to 14 0.45 1.35 0.90 0.45 -- 15 to 44 2.93 3.64 3.27 3.39 4.67 45 to 64 13.87 20.15 17.91 19.41 25.93 65 to 74 52.71 55.40 56.62 67.12 67.32 75 plus 108.89 123.55 124.45 132.27 139.09 Overall rate 13.34 15.64 16.35 18.72 19.24 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Source: 1 Health Protection Agency. Table 2: Rates of MRSA bloodstream infections by age group: England, Wales and Northern Ireland, 1999 to 2003 (number of cases per 100,000 population)1 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Age group 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 Up to 1 5.87 5.89 6.88 6.73 10.52 1 to 4 0.64 0.64 0.73 0.95 0.76 5 to 9 0.25 0.14 0.15 0.15 0.21 10 to 14 0.09 0.42 0.17 0.22 0.11 15 to 44 1.50 1.78 2.38 2.44 2.55 45 to 64 5.82 7.94 8.68 9.08 10.21 65 to 74 18.99 23.89 28.15 28.00 29.21 75 plus 32.31 41.50 52.28 56.01 63.48 Overall rate 6.24 7.99 9.68 10.20 11.10 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Source: 1 Health Protection Agency.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

209439; 431 c317-8W;431 c316-8W

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Age Greater London Infectious diseases Patients MRSA Havering

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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