Isolation Wards (Hansard, 2 February 2004)

§ Tim Loughton
To ask the Secretary of State for Health which hospitals have dedicated purpose-built isolation and infection control wards. [145046]

§ Dr. Murrison
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many English NHS hospitals have dedicated infection control wards. [147500]

§ Miss Melanie Johnson
Health Service Circular 2000/002 on the "Management and control of hospital infection" required trusts to undertake a risk assessment to determine appropriate provision of isolation facilities within each trust but these date were not collected centrally.
The Chief Medical Officer published his report "Winning Ways—Working together to reduce Healthcare Associated Infection in England", in December 2003 and this states that "NHS Trust Chief Executives will ensure that, over time, there is appropriate provision of isolation facilities within their healthcare facilities".