PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Hospitals: Infectious Diseases (22 November 2016)
Question Asked
Asked by:
Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat)
Answer
Public Health England (PHE) was established in 2013. The rate of infection for the nosocomial conditions since 2013 is shown in the table below.
Table 1 - Counts of trust-apportioned infections by financial year since April 2013
Nosocomial condition | April 2013 to March 2014 | April 2014 to March 2015 | April 2015 to March 2016 |
Methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus or (MSSA) | 2,696 | 2,804 | 2,910 |
Escherichia coli (E.coli) | 7,558 | 7,369 | 7,692 |
Clostridium. Difficile Infection (patients aged two years and over) | 5,034 | 5,233 | 5,164 |
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) | 364 | 285 | 297 |
PHE retains data collected by the Health Protection Agency since 2007.
Surveillance of Clostridium difficile infection began in 2007, trust-apportioned MRSA in 2008, trust-apportioned MSSA in 2011 and E. coli in 2013. Cases are published according to trust apportionment on a financial year basis, although for MRSA this has been superseded by an assignment process based on post-infections reviews since April 2013. Data collected prior to PHE’s formation is found in table 2.
Table 2 - Data collected prior to PHE’s formation in 2013
Nosocomial condition | April 2007 to March 2008 | April 2008 to March 2009 | April 2009 to March 2010 | April 2010 to March 2011 | April 2011 to March 2012 | April 2012 to March 2013 |
MSSA | ND | ND | ND | ND | 2,854 | 2,700 |
E.coli | ND | ND | ND | ND | ND | ND |
Clostridium. Difficile Infection (patients aged two years and over) | 33,434 | 19,927 | 13,220 | 10,417 | 7,689 | 5,980 |
MRSA | ND | 1,606 | 1,004 | 688 | 473 | 398 |
Notes:
- ND - Not Determined
- Cases are deemed to be trust-apportioned if the following criteria are met:
- The location where the specimen was taken is given as ‘acute Trust’ or is not known;
- The patient was either an ‘In-patient’, ‘Day-patient’, in ‘Emergency assessment’ or is not known;
- Patient’s specimen date is on, or after, the third day of the admission (or admission date is null), where the day of admission is day 1 (for MSSA or E. coli bacteraemia);
Or
- Patient’s specimen date is on, or after, the fourth day of the admission (or admission date is null), where the day of admission is day 1 (for Clostridium difficile infection).
Answered by:
Philip Dunne (Conservative)
30 November 2016
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