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Death: Clostridium

Answer

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 19 October 2007:"As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking how many deaths have been recorded where Clostridium difficile was (a) mentioned and (b) the underlying cause of death in (i) Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust and (ii) England in each of the past five years. (159667)""Special analyses of deaths in England and Wales involving Clostridium difficile are undertaken annually by ONS, and results are published in Health Statistics Quarterly. The latest year for which figures are currently available is 2005. The number of deaths for England where Clostridium difficile was (a) mentioned and (b) the underlying cause of death from 2001 to 2005 are published in Table 3 of Health Statistics Quarterly 33¹ (p73). This is available in the House of Commons Library.""ONS does not routinely link information on hospitals to their respective trusts. Therefore figures for the Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust are not readily available.""¹ Office for National Statistics: Report: Deaths involving Clostridium difficile: England and Wales, 2001-2005. Health Statistics Quarterly 33, 71-75."

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

159667; 465 c22W

Session

2006-07

Subjects

Death Clostridium

Link

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