Select Committee on Public Accounts Minutes of Evidence


Annex D

NUMBER OF DEATHS WHERE MRSA WAS A CONTRIBUTORY FACTOR IN 2002, BY HOSPITAL

Hospital NameNo of deaths where MRSA was a contributory factor Percentage of all deaths
England and Wales721
Hospitals with five or more deaths where MRSA was a contributory factor
0.2
Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge10 0.6
Alexandra Hospital, Redditch5 0.7
Arrowe Park Hospital, Birkenhead5 0.3
Ashford Hospital60.9
Birmingham Heartlands Hospital17 0.9
Bristol Royal Infirmary6 0.5
Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford8 0.6
City Hospital, Winson Green10 0.7
Conquest Hospital, St Leonards on Sea9 0.7
Derriford Hospital, Plymouth22 1.1
Freeman Hospital, Newcastle9 0.9
General Hospital, Bishop Auckland5 0.8
General Hospital, Southampton7 0.3
General Infirmary, Leeds11 0.6
George Eliot Hospital, Nuneaton5 0.4
Hull Royal Infirmary5 0.3
Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust9 0.5
King's College Hospital, London5 0.4
Lister Hospital, Stevenage5 0.4
Luton and Dunstable Hospital5 0.4
Maelor Hospital, Wrexham10 0.8
Medway Maritime Hospital, Gillingham13 0.8
Morriston Hospital, Swansea7 0.5
Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton7 0.5
New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton8 0.4
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital 70.3
North Middlesex Hospital, Edmonton5 0.5
Prince Charles Hospital, Merthyr Tydfil 60.6
Princess Margaret Hospital, Swindon5 0.4
Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan 60.6
Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth15 0.7
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston5 0.6
Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading5 0.4
Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro5 0.4
Royal Infirmary, Doncaster6 0.4
Royal Infirmary, Huddersfield5 0.5
Royal Preston Hospital5 0.4
Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton 60.4
Southmead Hospital, Bristol5 0.5
St. Helier Hospital, Carshalton5 0.4
St Mary's Hospital, Westminster9 1
St Thomas's Hospital, London9 0.8
Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury5 0.7
Torbay Hospital50.4
University Hospital Aintree7 0.4
University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff8 0.4
University Hospital, Nottingham6 0.3
Warwick Hospital50.5
Whittington Hospital St Mary's Wing, Islington 60.7
Wycombe General Hospital5 0.6


  Note:

  Figures are for deaths occurring in 2002. Hospitals with less than five deaths have not been listed to minimise the risk of disclosure of confidential information. A table on these remaining hospitals was placed in the House of Commons library.

  Source: Office for National Statistics and HPA—identified using the methodology described in Griffiths C, Lamangi T L, Crowcroft N S, Duckworth G and Rooney C (2004) Trends in MRSA in England and Wales; analysis of morbidity and mortality data for 1993-2002. Health Statistics Quarterly 21, 15-22.

August 2004





 
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