HC Deb 30 January 1997 vol 289 c343W
Mr. Alan W. Williams

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many incidents of MRSA have been reported each month since January 1992 in each region of England and Wales. [8030]

Mr. Horam

Data on the occurrence of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus are compiled by the Public Health Laboratory Service from isolates voluntarily submitted by hospitals in England and Wales for specialist typing. The number of recorded incidents of MRSA—three or more patients with the same strain of MRSA in a month from the same hospital—in 1996 for each of the old regional health authorities in England and for Wales have been placed in the Library.

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