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Hospitals: Infectious Diseases

Volume 470: debated on Tuesday 8 January 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many hospital-acquired infections there were in (a) the West Suffolk Hospital, (b) the Walnuttree hospital, Sudbury and (c) the Newmarket hospital in the most recent period for which figures are available. (175581)

Information is not available in the format requested as information is collected by national health service trust only. The following tables show the number of hospital acquired infections in West Suffolk Hospital trust for the three year period 2004-06 which is the latest data available.

Name of NHS trust

Number of Clostridium difficile reports for patients

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

West Suffolk Hospitals

Aged =65 years

July to September 2006

99

107

October to December 2006

115

97

January to March 2007

143

99

April to June 2007

119

95

Aged 2-64 years

April to June 2007

46

12

Source:

Health Protection Agency (HPA)

Name of NHS trust

Incidence of MRSA

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

West Suffolk Hospitals

July to September 2006

23

8

October to December 2006

20

6

January to March 2007

14

5

April to-June 2007

15

5

Source:

HPA

Name of NHS trust

GRE1 bacteraemia reports

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

West Suffolk Hospitals

1 October 2003 to 30 September 2004

41

5

1 October 2004 to 30 September 2005

46

2

1 October 2005 to 30 September 2006

61

7

1 Glycopeptide Resistant Enterococci blood stream infections

Source:

HPA