BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
A NHS trust which runs two hospitals in Merseyside and Lancashire has been MRSA free since last year, figures show.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Commenting on quarterly figures from the Health Protection Agency on MRSA bloodstream infections and C. difficile, Royal College of Nursing (RCN) General Secretary & Chief Executive, Dr Peter Carter, said: "The RCN is pleased the latest HPA figures show a 30 per cent decrease in reported MRSA cases in the 2007/08 financial year.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
The Health Protection Agency has today published its latest quarterly figures on MRSA (meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) bloodstream infections and C. difficile (Clostridium difficile) infections. These relate to the January to March 2008 period, the final quarter in the 2007/2008 financial calendar, providing annual figures for both infections.
Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
MANCHESTER businesses which have technologies that could help prevent the spread of MRSA in hospitals are being invited to prove it as part of a new NHS programme.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Commenting on the figures, Nigel Edwards, director of policy at the NHS Confederation, said: "These figures show that the NHS has made good progress in reducing healthcare acquired infection rates over the last year, with significant reductions in the prevalence of both MRSA and C. diff.
Lightwater (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
The BBC reports on the good news about the reduction in MRSA cases at Frimley Park Hospital, HERE.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Figures released today show that MRSA and CDiff are reducing at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton. In the last three months there have been 3 MRSA blood stream infections in the hospital, compared with 8 in the same period last year. This shows a 12 month reduction of 62%. In the same three months this year there have been 16 post 48 hour CDiff isolates, compared with 23 last year.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Frimley Park Hospital reports its lowest MRSA rate after bringing in extra infection control measures.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
MRSA bloodstream infections fell by 30 per cent last year - the greatest annual reduction of the last 5 years - new figures published have shown. The quarterly figures on healthcare associated infections published by the Health Protection Agency also show that the number of MRSA infections have fallen by over 49 per cent compared with the quarterly average in 2003/04. The number of C.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Cases of the MRSA superbug in South West hospitals have fallen by 39 per cent, according to a recent study. Figures released by the Health Protection Agency on Thursday show hospitals in the region are making good progress in fighting infections.
Medicine for the Outdoors (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is here to stay. Although it is most problematic in healthcare settings, particularly hospitals, it is present in the "community" as well, and therefore will become a consideration for outdoor and wilderness enthusiasts. In mid-April (2008), the following press release appeared: One in Every 20 Healthcare Workers Is (a) MRSA Carrier By...
Health - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Rates of difficult-to-treat infections have dropped substantially but British health officials say they've seen a rise in a type of colitis....
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
NHS staff across Yorkshire are making major progress in tackling hospital-acquired infections, latest figures reveal. The Yorkshire Post revealed yesterday that the Government is on course to meet its target to slash MRSA infections by half.
Article Archive (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
A look at the training courses being undertaken by healthcare professionals in order to improve infection control and combat super bugs such as MRSA.
This is Bath (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
The number of MRSA cases at the RUH in the period January to March this year was five, down from nine in the previous three months and 11 in the same period last year.Conservatives have claimed that cases of such infections have been driven up by pressure on beds.The figures show that there were 1.2 cases per 10,000 bed days between October last year and this March - compared to a national figure of...
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newsroom | 04/03/2008
BY DELTHIA RICKS delthia.ricks@newsday.com April 3, 2008 MRSA is a notorious cause of hospital infections, but Long Island doctors who are beginning tests of an experimental vaccine for open-heart surgery patients say they hope the shot will keep the superbug at bay. Shorthand for methicillin-resistant staphlycoccus aureus, MRSA is a multi-drug-repellent bacterium that during the past 40 years has...
newsflo | 01/22/2008
BY DELTHIA RICKS NEWSDAY MELVILLE, N.Y. The type of MRSA linked to infections in communities appears to be caused by a single strain that is spreading with extraordinary transmissibility, say federal scientists who are studying the sweep of resistant staph infections in recent years. MRSA, shorthand for methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus, has become so prevalent that the Centers for Disease...
