HCAI Mandatory Surveillance Stakeholder Meeting

Listening to our stakeholders- Feedback from stakeholders on MRSA bacteraemia and C. difficile infection surveillance

On the 9th November 2009 the Health Protection Agency and the Department of Health held a meeting for those who report MRSA bacteraemia and C. difficile to the HPA or who use the HPA's data outputs on these infections. The meeting was an opportunity to give feedback on the system to help improve the surveillance system and epidemiological outputs.

Documents from the stakeholder meeting are available below:

Summary documents

Programme Agenda (PDF, 115 KB)

Summary report of the meeting (PDF, 280 KB)

Presentations

Introduction and objectives (PDF, 267 KB)- Dr Christine McCartney

The Department of Health perspective (PDF, 541 KB)- Sally Batley

HCAI surveillance activities at the HPA (PDF, 146 KB)- Dr Miranda Murray

Comparative MRSA bacteraemia rates (PDF, 441 KB)- Professor Gary French

Keynote address (PDF, 5.1 MB)- Professor Brian Duerden

Feedback from the CDI and MRSA user survey (PDF, 184 KB)- Dr Miranda Murray

Feedback on the survey from LARS (PDF, 448 KB)- Dr Deirdre Lewis

Summary of findings from the breakout groups

Mandatory Surveillance Publications (PDF, 228 KB)

Local and Regional Surveillance (PDF, 265 KB)

Risk Factors 1 (PDF, 522 KB)

Risk Factors 2 (PDF, 288 KB)

Routine Epidemiological Publications (PDF, 300 KB)

System Developments (PDF, 126 KB)

Last reviewed: 20 April 2010