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Dept of Health

Answer

Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people in each of the last two years have fallen ill owing to MRSA-related conditions contracted as a result of a stay in hospital in each health service area. [177721] Miss Melanie Johnson: This information is not collected centrally. Available data from the national mandatory methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) blood stream infections (bacteraemias) system is shown in the table. Mandatory methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) blood stream infections (bacteraemias) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Strategic health authority April 2002- March 2003 April 2003- March 20041 Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire 389 344 Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire 173 148 Birmingham and the Black Country 455 440 Cheshire and Merseyside 344 320 County Durham and Tees Valley 155 122 Coventry, Warwickshire, Herefordshire and 182 202 Worcestershire Cumbria and Lancashire 215 235 Dorset and Somerset 139 100 Essex 149 148 Greater Manchester 375 410 Hampshire and Isle of Wight 200 213 Kent and Medway 200 203 Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland 189 182 Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire 392 388 North and East Yorkshire and Northern 151 197 Lincolnshire North Central London 376 364 North East London 246 253 North West London 387 376 Northumberland, Tyne and Wear 225 267 Shropshire and Staffordshire 175 240 South East London 406 397 South West London 244 267 South West Peninsula 210 259 South Yorkshire 156 198 Surrey and Sussex 346 383 Thames Valley 243 262 Trent 305 337 West Yorkshire 357 392 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 These data are provisional. Source: Health Protection Agency

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

177721; 422 c1005-6W

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Hospitals Infectious diseases Health authorities Patients MRSA

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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