Department of Health letters

• Screening for MRSA colonisation: a summary of best practice. Letter from the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Nursing Officer, 16 November 2006
• Reporting MRSA data: overview of arrangements. Letter from the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Nursing Officer, 30 March 2006
• Mandatory surveillance of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteraemias. Letter from the Chief Medical Officer and the Chief Nursing Officer, 9 June 2005
• Letter from the Inspector of Microbiology and Infection Control 16 December 2005
• Surveillance of Healthcare Associated Infections. Letter from the Chief Medical Officer and the Chief Nursing Officer, 9 June 2003
• Press release from the Department of Health announcing the introduction of mandatory surveillance of healthcare associated infections 10 October 2000

Last reviewed: 31 March 2009