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Written question asked by Gloria De Piero (Labour) on Tuesday, 10 November 2015, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 16 November 2015 (named day). It was answered by Jane Ellison (Conservative) on Monday, 16 November 2015 on behalf of the Department of Health.

MRSA

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a comparative assessment of the number of recorded MRSA infections recorded in (a) Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, (b) Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and (c) England in each of the last five years.

Answer

The number of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteraemia reported by and attributed to Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust in the past seven financial years (FYs) is provided in the table below. Total MRSA reports and acute trust attribution is also provided for England.


MRSA bacteraemia reported by and attributed to Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (FY 2008/09 to FY 2014/15)

Sherwood Forest

Nottingham University Hospitals

England

Reported

Trust apportioned

Reported

Trust apportioned

Reported

Trust apportioned

2008/09

31

17

35

17

2935

1606

2009/10

14

6

40

21

1898

1004

2010/11

6

0

11

5

1481

688

2011/12

3

0

14

8

1116

473

2012/13

1

0

13

5

924

398

2013/14

5

3

7

2

862

364

2014/15

5

0

11

4

801

287

Source:

- Annual results from the mandatory MRSA reporting scheme (FY 2007/08 to 2014/15).

- Accompanying data for annual epidemiological commentary: MRSA, MSSA and E. coli bacteraemia and C. difficile infection data, up to and including financial year 2014 to 2015

This data is not case-mix adjusted (i.e. they do not take into account the different population types served by each hospital) and so are not directly comparable. It is important to note that MRSA bacteraemia cases are reported by the acute trust whose laboratory processes the specimen and this may not always reflect where the bacteraemia was acquired.


Public Health England is working, with partner organisations, to address antimicrobial resistance through the implementation of the UK Five Year Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy[1].



[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-5-year-antimicrobial resistance-strategy-2013-to-2018

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
15933
Session
2015-16
Subjects
MRSA
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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