FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI 02584
- Request Date
- July 24, 2018
- Subject
- Nosocomial Infection Rates
- Description
Please can you tell me the bacterial infection rates within the Intensive Care Unit at your Trust, in the past 5 years.
- Response
We do not calculate infection rates within ITU or collect data on all bacterial infections in ITU as there is no mandatory requirement to do so. However, we calculate Trust wide infection rates per 100,000 bed days for specific organisms such as MRSA as mandated by Public Health England. These reports can be found on the PHE website via the organism specific links below:
MRSA: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mrsa-bacteraemia-annual-data
MSSA: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mssa-bacteraemia-annual-data
Clostridium difficile: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/clostridium-difficile-infection-annual-data
The information in this response is provided under the terms of the Open Government Licence. Please see here for more information:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/