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You are six times less likely to contract MRSA in one of our hospitals

  • MRSA rates are one of the seven key standard clinical performance indicators which must be
    reported to the Healthcare Commission by independent hospitals.
  • We were the first private group to submit our infection data to the Health Protection Agency
    and, as such, are audited in exactly the same way as the NHS.
  • HCA routinely screens all patients before being admitted as day case or inpatients.
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    In the graph, the rate of MRSA bacteraemia
    per 10,000* patient bed days for all HCA
    hospitals during 2006 is compared with the
    NHS rate for the six month period to March
    2006 (the most recent period for which
    figures are publicly available).

*Previous issue of the Quality Report showed MRSA rates per 1,000 patient bed days

Source: Health Protection Agency. www.hpa.org.uk/infections