MRSA bloodstream infections in the NHS have reached record low levels, with fewer than 100 infections recorded in a single month for the first time. The Health Protection Agency has published the monthly data for MRSA and Clostridium difficile for June 2011.
Compared with June 2010, the statistics show that MRSA bloodstream infections have fallen from 134 to 97, representing a 28% reduction and a record low since MRSA mandatory surveillance started in 2001. The figures also show that 25 acute Trusts have had no Trust-apportioned MRSA infections between June 2010 and June 2011. C. difficile figures have fallen from 2,001 to 1,681 – representing a 16% reduction.
