§ Mr. HancockTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people in each of the last two years have fallen ill owing to MRSA-related conditions contracted as a result of a stay in hospital in each health service area. [177721]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonThis information is not collected centrally. Available data from the national mandatory methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) blood stream infections (bacteraemias) system is shown in the table.
Mandatory methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) blood stream infections (bacteraemias) Strategic health authority April 2002—March 2003 April 2003—March 20041 Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire 389 344 Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire 173 148 Birmingham and the Black Country 455 440 Cheshire and Merseyside 344 320 County Durham and Tees Valley 155 122 Coventry, Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire 182 202 Cumbria and Lancashire 215 235 Dorset and Somerset 139 100 Essex 149 148 Greater Manchester 375 410 Hampshire and Isle of Wight 200 213 Kent and Medway 200 203 Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland 189 182 Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire 392 388 North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire 151 197 North Central London 376 364 North East London 246 253 North West London 387 376 Northumberland, Tyne and Wear 225 267 Shropshire and Staffordshire 175 240 South East London 406 397 South West London 244 267 South West Peninsula 210 259 South Yorkshire 156 198 Surrey and Sussex 346 383
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Patients waiting for elective inpatient admission Patients waiting for admission by months waiting Month-end NHS Trust Total number of Patients Less than three months Three to five months Six to eight months Nine to 11 months 12–14 months 15–17 months 18+ months March 1997 Burnley Healthcare NHS Trust 4,903 2,638 1,201 668 396 — — — March 1997 Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Health Care NHS Trust 5,840 3,126 1,677 786 251 — — — March 1998 Burnley Healthcare NHS Trust 6,157 3,061 1,470 968 625 33 — — March 1998 Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Health Care NHS Trust 6,569 3,224 1,087 1,087 412 2 — — Burnley Healthcare NHS Trust 4,895 2,908 1,092 546 288 61 — — March 1999 Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Health Care NHS Trust 5,357 3,231 1,103 691 318 14 — —
Mandatory methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) blood stream infections (bacteraemias) Strategic health authority April 2002—March 2003 April 2003—March 20041 Thames Valley 243 262 Trent 305 337 West Yorkshire 357 392 1These data are provisional. Source: Health Protection Agency
§ Mr. DrewTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cases of MRSA were reported in each month over the last two years in each health trust. [177988]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonAnnual data are available from the mandatory Methicillin resistantStaphylococcus aureus (MRSA) blood stream (bacteraemia) infections surveillance system that started in April 2001 at the Department's website at http://www.dh.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/06/39/46/04063946.pdf.