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MRSA: Havering

Volume 481: debated on Tuesday 21 October 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients have contracted MRSA in hospitals in Havering in the last five years. (227762)

The latest information available held by the Department on the number of cases of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) reported to the Health Protection Agency by Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust is shown in the following table.

Number of reports to the HPA

MRSA rate per 10,000 bed days

April 2003 to March 2004

116

2.4

April 2007 to September 2007

20

0.9

October 2007 to March 2008

20

0.9

April 2008 to June 2008

10

0.9