Jim Cunningham – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2015-11-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 24 November 2015 to Question 17021, what the number of methicillin resistant (a) staphylococcus aureus, (b) clostridium difficile and (c) E.coli infections were in England and Wales in each of the last five years.
Ben Gummer
Public Health England (PHE) has surveillance data on meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteraemia, E. coli bacteraemia and on C. difficile Infection (CDI). The reported numbers for both MRSA and E. coli bacteraemia cover bloodstream infections only. C. difficile data covers all infections. The totals, shown in the table below, are the number of infections reported to PHE each financial year, extracted from the Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAI) data capture system. Mandatory surveillance data covers England only.
Total Number of MRSA, C. difficile and E. coli infections in England (April 2010 to March 2015)
|
Year: |
April 2010 – March 2011 |
April 2011 – March 2012 |
April 2012 – March 2013 |
April 2013- March 2014 |
April 2014 – March 2015 |
|
Total reported MRSA bacteraemia episodes |
1,481 |
1,116 |
924 |
862 |
801 |
|
Total reported C. difficile episodes |
21,707 |
18,022 |
14,694 |
13,361 |
14,165 |
|
Total reported E. coli bacteraemia episodes |
* |
* |
32,309 |
34,275 |
35,676 |
* Mandatory surveillance of E. coli bacteraemia was introduced in July 2011.
Source: PHE.
