Written question asked by Graham Stuart (Conservative) on Thursday, 24 November 2005, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 28 November 2005. It was answered by Liam Byrne (Labour) on Wednesday, 7 December 2005 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Hull Royal Infirmary

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients have (a) contracted and (b) died from hospital acquired infections at the Hull Royal Infirmary in each year since figures have been available.

Answer

The information is not available in the format requested. The table shows the number of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteraemia reports from April 2001 to March 2005¹ for the Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals National Health Service Trust.

	Number of MRSA bacteraemia reports	MRSA rate per 1,000 bed days
April 2001 to March 2002	106	0.26
April 2002 to March 2003	75	0.18
April 2003 to March 2004	102	0.23
April 2004 to March 2005	90	0.21
Source: Mandatory MRSA blood stream infections surveillance system
⁽²⁶⁾ Provisional as final activity data to be confirmed.

Data for years prior to 2001 on the trust's MRSA bacteraemia rates (by number of reports and rate per 1,000 bed days) is available on the Department's website at:www.dh.gov.uk/PublicationsAndStatistics.It is not possible to give reliable figures on the number of deaths involving hospital-acquired infections at the Hull and East Yorkshire Hospital NHS Trust from routinely collected mortality data. This is because, as elsewhere, information on where the infection was acquired may not be available to the doctor certifying the death.

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Type: Written question
Reference: 440 c1412-3W;440 c1412-3W; 32956
Session: 2005-06
Subjects: Hospitals Infectious diseases MRSA Hull Royal Infirmary
Contains statistics: Yes
Link: View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk

Hull Royal Infirmary

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