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Dept of Health

Answer

Mr. Dismore: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on rates of MSRA at (a) Barnet, (b) Chase Farm, (c) Northwich Park, (d) Royal Free and (e) Edgware Hospitals in each of the last three years. [197629] Dr. Ladyman: [pursuant to his reply, 15 November 2004, c. 1163-64W]: I regret my previous reply was incorrect. It should read as follows: Information on the rates of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) blood stream infections is only available for acute National Health Service trusts and these data are shown in the table. Data is not collected centrally for Barnet Primary Care Trust, of which Edgware Hospital is a part. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Name of NHS trust Number of MRSA MRSA rate per Number of MRSA MRSA rate per MRSA bacteraemia MRSA rate per bacteraemia 1000 bed-days bacteraemia 1,000 bed-days reports April 1,000 bed-days reports April April 2001-March reports April April 2002-March 2003-March 2004 April 2003-March 2001-March 2002 2002 2002- March 2003 2003 2004 Barnet and Chase Farm 62 0.20 94 0.28 94 0.27 Hospitals NHS Trust North West London 59 0.23 44 0.16 55 0.20 Hospitals NHS Trust Royal Free Hampstead NHS 122 0.41 101 0.39 98 0.34 Trust _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

426 c1968W;426 c1974W; 197629

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Hospitals Greater London Infectious diseases MRSA Northwick Park Hospital Royal Free Hospital Chase Farm Hospital Edgware Community Hospital Barnet Hospital

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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