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HCAI Reporting within Independent Sector healthcare organisations

Mandatory reporting of meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteraemia and Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) has been in place for National Health Service (NHS) acute Trusts for several years. Independent Sector (IS) hospitals began reporting MRSA bacteraemia and CDI, from January 2008. In January 2011 this scheme was extended to include surveillance of MSSA bacteraemia and E. coli bacteraemia in June 2011. IS healthcare organisations providing regulated activities undertake surveillance on HCAIs and report to Public Health England (PHE) as specified in the Code of Practice. Please refer to the UK Legislation website and The Health and Social Care Act 2008 for more information.

Whilst reporting guidelines and case definitions for IS organisations and NHS acute Trusts are identical there have been numerous issues specific to IS surveillance which are further discussed in the commentaries below.

Such issues also mean that to date it is not possible to draw comparisons between IS and NHS data on these published data.

The latest publication includes 6 months counts of MRSA, MSSA and E. coli bacteraemia and CDI within those IS organisations who reported between April 2012 and September 2012.

Archive data for April 2011- March 2012 is available below.

IS Reporting Summary - April 2013

Commentary: Commentary accompanying the Independent Sector MRSA, MSSA, E.coli bacteraemia and CDI publication- April 2013 (PDF, 377 KB) 


Tables: Counts and rates of MRSA, MSSA, E. coli bacteraemia and CDI in IS organisations from April 2012 - September 2012. (Excel Spreadsheet, 121 KB)

  • Table 1: Counts of MRSA bacteraemia by Independent Sector Healthcare Organisation; April 2012 to September 2012
  • Table 2: Counts of Clostridium difficile infection by Independent Sector Healthcare Organisation; April 2012 to September 2012
  • Table 3: Counts of MSSA bacteraemia by Independent Sector Healthcare Organisation; April 2012 to September 2012
  • Table 4: Counts of Escherichia coli bacteraemia by Independent Sector Healthcare Organisation; April 2012 to September 2012

Descriptive commentary - July 2009

 Commentary on Reporting of C. difficile infections and MRSA bacteraemia from the Independent Sector (PDF, 438 KB)

Archive Reporting Summaries - October 2012

Archive Commentary: Commentary accompanying the Independent Sector MRSA, MSSA, E.coli bacteraemia and CDI publication- October 2012 (PDF, 383 KB) 

ArchiveTables: Counts and rates of MRSA, MSSA and CDI in IS organisations; April 2011 to March 2012 and counts of E. coli bacteraemia from October 2011 - March 2012. (Excel Spreadsheet, 108 KB) 

  • Archive table 1: Counts & rates of MRSA bacteraemia by Independent Sector Healthcare Organisation; April 2011 to March 2012
  • Archive table 2: Counts & rates of Clostridium difficile infection by Independent Sector Healthcare Organisations; April 2011 to March 2012
  • Archive table 3: Counts & rates of MSSA bacteraemia by Independent Sector Healthcare Organisation; April 2011 to March 2012
  • Archive table 4: Counts of Escherichia coli bacteraemia by Independent Sector Healthcare Organisation;April 2011 to March 2012

These tables are provided for historical reference and will not be updated. Please note that the numbers may have changed but the overall trend will remain the same.

Previous publications are available on request.


Last reviewed: 28 March 2013