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Dept of Health

Answer

Mr. Cummings: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cases of MRSA and how many deaths arising there from there were at the (a) Sunderland Royal Hospital, (b) Durham University Hospital, (c) Hartlepool University Hospital, (d) North Tees Hospital and (e) James Cook Hospital--South Tees in each of the last five years. [204764] Miss Melanie Johnson: Information on methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bloodstream infections (bacteraemias) has only been collected since April 2001 and is collected by national health service trust rather than by hospital. The data for the relevant trusts are shown in the table. The mandatory MRSA bloodstream surveillance does not collect information on deaths. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. April 2001-March 2002 April 2002-March 2003 April 2003-March 2004 Name of NHS trust (name Number of MRSA MRSA rate per Number of MRSA MRSA rate per Number of MRSA MRSA rate per of hospital) bacteraemia 1,000 bed-days bacteraemia 1,000 bed-days bacteraemia 1,000 bed-days reports reports reports City Hospitals 41 0.15 47 0.17 56 0.22 Sunderland NHS Trust (Sunderland Royal Hospital) County Durham and 30 0.08 40 0.10 38 0.09 Darlington Acute Hospitals NHS Trust (University Hospital North Durham) North Tees and 21 0.09 19 0.08 15 0.06 Hartlepool NHS Trust (University Hospital of Hartlepool and University Hospital of North Tees) South Tees Hospital NHS 120 0,30 96 0.23 69 0.20 Trust (James Cook University Hospital) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Source: Health Protection Agency

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

204764; 429 c610W;429 c608W

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Death Hospitals Hygiene Infectious diseases MRSA University Hospital of Hartlepool University Hospital of North Tees University Hospital of North Durham James Cook University Hospital Sunderland Royal Hospital

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