Hospitals: Infectious Diseases Mr. Dismore To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the incidence of (a) MRSA and (b) clostridium difficile was at (i) Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust, (ii) the Royal Free Hospital and (iii) Northwick Park Hospital in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement. Ann Keen The information is not held in the format requested. Data on the incidence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteraemia for 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2008-09, and data on the incidence of Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) for 2007-08 and 2008-09 Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust, Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust and North West London Hospitals NHS Trust are given as follows. ------------------------------------------------------------------- |MRSA bacteraemia |2006-07|2007-08|2008-09| ------------------------------------------------------------------- |Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust|62 |54 |30 | ------------------------------------------------------------------- |Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust |75 |31 |18 | ------------------------------------------------------------------- |North West London Hospitals NHS Trust |51 |33 |29 | ------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |C. difficile |2007-08|2008-09| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust |173 |62 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust |179 |52 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |North West London Hospitals NHS Trust |211 |155 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Notes:1. Data are published by acute trust. Northwick Park Hospital is part of North West London Hospitals NHS Trust and information for this trust is included in the tables above.2. Under the mandatory surveillance scheme, national health service acute trust laboratories report all cases of MRSA bloodstream infections, not just those from in-patients, and include infections acquired in hospital and elsewhere.3. Under the mandatory surveillance scheme, NHS acute trusts report episodes of C. difficile infection in people aged two years and over. The scheme was ‘enhanced’ in April 2007 to include patient-level data for all patients aged two years and over. We are therefore only able to provide data for the last two years.4. The ‘trust apportioned number’ refers to infections which are presumed to be hospital acquired.Source:Health Protection Agency, mandatory surveillance reporting schemes for MRSA and C. difficile infections.| | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------