Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a comparative assessment of the number of recorded MRSA infections recorded in (a) Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, (b) Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and (c) England in each of the last five years.

The number of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteraemia reported by and attributed to Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust in the past seven financial years (FYs) is provided in the table below. Total MRSA reports and acute trust attribution is also provided for England.

MRSA bacteraemia reported by and attributed to Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (FY 2008/09 to FY 2014/15)

Source:

- Annual results from the mandatory MRSA reporting scheme (FY 2007/08 to 2014/15).

- Accompanying data for annual epidemiological commentary: MRSA, MSSA and E. coli bacteraemia and C. difficile infection data, up to and including financial year 2014 to 2015

This data is not case-mix adjusted (i.e. they do not take into account the different population types served by each hospital) and so are not directly comparable. It is important to note that MRSA bacteraemia cases are reported by the acute trust whose laboratory processes the specimen and this may not always reflect where the bacteraemia was acquired.

Public Health England is working, with partner organisations, to address antimicrobial resistance through the implementation of the UK Five Year Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy[1].

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-5-year-antimicrobial resistance-strategy-2013-to-2018