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Written question asked by Baroness Elliott of Whitburn Bay (Labour) on Tuesday, 24 September 2019, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 30 September 2019 (named day). It was answered by Jo Churchill (Conservative) on Monday, 30 September 2019 on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.


Antibiotics: Diarrhoea

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the number of patients on antibiotics who developed (a) AAD and (b) CDI/CDAD.

Answer

Data on the number of patients on antibiotics who developed antibiotic-associated diarrhoea (AAD), clostridium difficile infections (CDI), or clostridium difficile-associated disease are not available in the format requested.

Public Health England publishes data on the number of CDIs which is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/clostridium-difficile-infection-annual-data

Data are not collected on the number of people with AAD.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
290340
Session
2017-19
Subjects
Antibiotics Diarrhoea
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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