§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 10 May 2002,Official Report, column 403W, on hospital acquired infection, what plans he has to make representations to the International Classification of Diseases to include MRSA as a distinct code for encoding death registration data. [71349]
§ Mr. Lammy[holding answer 22 July 2002]: A world health organisation technical group is developing a proposal to use additional codes to identify antimicrobial resistance in infectious diseases. Subject to official ratification, this is likely to lead to an updating of the international classification of diseases.