St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust has achieved the lowest infection rates it has ever recorded for MRSA and Clostridium difficile (C.diff) at St George’s Hospital, Tooting, and the Wolfson Neurorehabilitation Centre, Wimbledon.
Acquiring only nine MRSA infections and 83 C.diff infections during 2010/11, the trust remained within its mandatory performance limits for both MRSA and C.diff, of nine and 168 respectively. This achievement included a period of over 200 days where none of the hospital’s patients acquired MRSA blood stream infection.
The trust’s management of infection has been developing over recent years and infection rates have improved consistently since 2006. Among teaching hospitals in London, the trust recorded the lowest C.diff rate1 and the second lowest MRSA rate2 for 2010/11.
St George’s Healthcare publishes its infection rates quarterly online here.
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