Healthcare-acquired Infections

Tim Loughton
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many MRSA bloodstream infections were recorded at (a) the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton and (b) Worthing Hospital in each of the last three years.

Andy Burnham
[holding answer 10 July 2006]: The information is not available in the format requested. However, the table shows the number of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) reports for Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals National Health Service Trust and Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust for the periods shown.

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|                                |Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust|Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust|
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|April 2002-March 2003           |74                                                |15                                         |
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|April 2003-March 2004           |107                                               |22                                         |
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|April 2004-March 2005           |129                                               |34                                         |
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|Source: Health Protection Agency|                                                  |                                           |
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