HC Deb 11 April 2003 vol 403 c444W
Mr. Bercow

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS patients from the Buckingham constituency contracted hospital-acquired infections in(a) 2000 and (b) 2001. [107158]

Ms Blears

In the period April 2001 to March 2002, there were 48 cases of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemias in the Buckinghamshire area. These figures were published in the Communicable Disease Report (CDR) Weekly on 20 June 2002.

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