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MRSA hospital infections

 Patients can see how well their local hospital is doing in reducing rates of the MRSA superbug as latest figures for each of the 174 acute NHS trusts in England are published.

The latest figures show the number of cases reported at each trust and the MRSA rate per 1,000 bed days. A bed day is defined as one person in hospital for one night.

The statistics, compiled by the Health Protection Agency (HPA), show that seven trusts had zero cases of MRSA for the period April-September 2005.

Here is the list in full, with the worst offenders first:

Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust: 69 cases - rate of 0.41 per 1,000 bed days.
Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust: 51 cases - rate of 0.39 per 1,000 bed days.
Kingston Hospital NHS Trust: 34 cases - rate of 0.36 per 1,000 bed days.

Hinchingbrooke Healthcare NHS Trust: 18 cases - rate of 0.35 per 1,000 bed days.

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 57 cases - rate of 0.34 per 1,000 bed days.

Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust: 13 cases - rate of 0.32 per 1,000 bed days.

Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: 9 cases - rate of 0.32 per 1,000 bed days.

University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust: 59 cases - rate of 0.31 per 1,000 bed days.

Guy’s and St. Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust: 51 cases - rate of 0.30 per 1,000 bed days.

Ashford & St Peter's Hospitals NHS Trust: 29 cases - rate of 0.30 per 1,000 bed days.

Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust: 32 cases - rate of 0.29 per 1,000 bed days.

King's College Hospital NHS Trust: 40 cases - rate of 0.28 per 1,000 bed days.

St. Mary's NHS Trust: 28 cases - rate of 0.27 per 1,000 bed days.

Salford Royal Hospitals NHS Trust: 39 cases - rate of 0.27 per 1,000 bed days.

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 36 cases - rate of 0.27 per 1,000 bed days.

Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust: 35 cases - rate of 0.27 per 1,000 bed days.

St. George's Healthcare NHS Trust: 41 cases - rate of 0.27 per 1,000 bed days.

South Manchester University Hospital's NHS Trust: 33 cases - rate of 0.27 per 1,000 bed days.

University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust: 47 cases - rate of 0.27 per 1,000 bed days.

Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust: 53 cases - rate of 0.27 per 1,000 bed days.

University College London NHS Foundation Trust: 37 cases - rate of 0.26 per 1,000 bed days.

Bedford Hospitals NHS Trust: 19 cases - rate of 0.26 per 1,000 bed days.

Weston Area Health NHS Trust: 14 cases - rate of 0.25 per 1,000 bed days.

Ealing Hospital NHS Trust: 17 cases - rate of 0.25 per 1,000 bed days.

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: 21 cases - rate of 0.25 per 1,000 bed days.

Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust: 50 cases - rate of 0.25 per 1,000 bed days.

Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust: 40 cases - rate of 0.25 per 1,000 bed days.

Barnet & Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust: 39 cases - rate of 0.24 per 1,000 bed days.

Worthing & Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust: 24 cases - rate of 0.24 per 1,000 bed days.

Whittington Hospital NHS Trust: 17 cases - rate of 0.24 per 1,000 bed days.

Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust: 27 cases - rate of 0.24 per 1,000 bed days.

Luton & Dunstable Hospital NHS Trust: 21 cases - rate of 0.24 per 1,000 bed days.

Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: 3 cases - rate of 0.23 per 1,000 bed days.

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust: 32 cases - rate of 0.23 per 1,000 bed days.

Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust: 48 cases - rate of 0.23 per 1,000 bed days.

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust: 18 cases - rate of 0.23 per 1,000 bed days.

Chelsea & Westminster Healthcare NHS Trust: 17 cases - rate of 0.22 per 1,000 bed days.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: 84 cases - rate of 0.22 per 1,000 bed days.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust: 42 cases - rate of 0.22 per 1,000 bed days.

Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust: 47 cases - rate of 0.22 per 1,000 bed days.

Barts & the London NHS Trust: 37 cases - rate of 0.22 per 1,000 bed days.

West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust: 27 cases - rate of 0.22 per 1,000 bed days.

Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust: 33 cases - rate of 0.21 per 1,000 bed days.

North Bristol NHS Trust: 48 cases - rate of 0.21 per 1,000 bed days.

Good Hope Hospital NHS Trust: 20 cases - rate of 0.21 per 1,000 bed days.

Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust: 26 cases - rate of 0.21 per 1,000 bed days.

Queen Mary's Sidcup NHS Trust: 14 cases - rate of 0.21 per 1,000 bed days.

Mid Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust: 17 cases - rate of 0.20 per 1,000 bed days.

Buckinghamshire Hospital NHS Trust: 30 cases - rate of 0.20 per 1,000 bed days.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust: 29 cases - rate of 0.20 per 1,000 bed days.

United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust: 32 cases - rate of 0.20 per 1,000 bed days.

Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust: 18 cases - rate of 0.20 per 1,000 bed days.

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust: 37 cases - rate of 0.20 per 1,000 bed days.

Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Hospitals University NHS Trust: 38 cases - rate of 0.20 per 1,000 bed days.

Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust: 22 cases - rate of 0.20 per 1,000 bed days.

West Middlesex University NHS Trust: 10 cases - rate of 0.19 per 1,000 bed days.

West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust: 19 cases - rate of 0.19 per 1,000 bed days.

Nottingham City Hospital NHS Trust: 27 cases - rate of 0.19 per 1,000 bed days.

The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust: 58 cases - rate of 0.19 per 1,000 bed days.

Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust: 31 cases - rate of 0.19 per 1,000 bed days.

Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust: 23 cases - rate of 0.19 per 1,000 bed days.

Burton Hospitals NHS Trust: 13 cases - rate of 0.19 per 1,000 bed days.

South Warwickshire General Hospitals NHS Trust: 14 cases - rate of 0.19 per 1,000 bed days.

Milton Keynes General Hospital NHS Trust: 12 cases - rate of 0.19 per 1,000 bed days.

South Devon Healthcare NHS Trust: 15 cases - rate of 0.19 per 1,000 bed days.

Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Trust: 14 cases - rate of 0.18 per 1,000 bed days.

Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust: 9 cases - rate of 0.18 per 1,000 bed days.

North Middlesex Hospital NHS Trust: 15 cases - rate of 0.18 per 1,000 bed days.

Poole Hospitals NHS Trust: 20 cases - rate of 0.18 per 1,000 bed days.

Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 20 cases - rate of 0.18 per 1,000 bed days.

Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust: 26 cases - rate of 0.18 per 1,000 bed days.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust: 39 cases - rate of 0.18 per 1,000 bed days.

Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust: 22 cases - rate of 0.18 per 1,000 bed days.

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 57 cases - rate of 0.18 per 1,000 bed days.

Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust: 14 cases - rate of 0.18 per 1,000 bed days.

Tameside and Glossop Acute Services NHS Trust: 17 cases - rate of 0.18 per 1,000 bed days.

Central Manchester & Manchester Children's University NHS Trust: 31 cases - rate of 0.17 per 1,000 bed days.

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Trust: 15 cases - rate of 0.17 per 1,000 bed days.

The Royal West Sussex NHS Trust: 13 cases - rate of 0.17 per 1,000 bed days.

Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust: 28 cases - rate of 0.17 per 1,000 bed days.

East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust: 29 cases - rate of 0.17 per 1,000 bed days.

East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust: 42 cases - rate of 0.17 per 1,000 bed days.

Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust: 26 cases - rate of 0.17 per 1,000 bed days.

James Paget Healthcare NHS Trust: 14 cases - rate of 0.16 per 1,000 bed days.

Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust: 17 cases - rate of 0.16 per 1,000 bed days.

Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust: 12 cases - rate of 0.16 per 1,000 bed days.

Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS Trust: 19 cases - rate of 0.16 per 1,000 bed days.

Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust: 12 cases - rate of 0.16 per 1,000 bed days.

Shrewsbury And Telford Hospitals NHS Trust: 23 cases - rate of 0.16 per 1,000 bed days.

Epsom & St. Helier NHS Trust: 21 cases - rate of 0.16 per 1,000 bed days.

Swindon & Marlborough NHS Trust: 13 cases - rate of 0.16 per 1,000 bed days.

Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust: 17 cases - rate of 0.16 per 1,000 bed days.

Christie Hospital NHS Trust: 5 cases - rate of 0.16 per 1,000 bed days.

Royal Berkshire & Battle Hospitals NHS Trust: 18 cases - rate of 0.15 per 1,000 bed days.

City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust: 22 cases - rate of 0.15 per 1,000 bed days.

Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust: 30 cases - rate of 0.15 per 1,000 bed days.

Barking, Havering & Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust: 38 cases - rate of 0.15 per 1,000 bed days.

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust: 21 cases - rate of 0.15 per 1,000 bed days.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust: 20 cases - rate of 0.15 per 1,000 bed days.

Newham Healthcare NHS Trust: 11 cases - rate of 0.15 per 1,000 bed days.

Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: 14 cases - rate of 0.15 per 1,000 bed days.

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust: 15 cases - rate of 0.15 per 1,000 bed days.

Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust: 20 cases - rate of 0.15 per 1,000 bed days.

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust: 16 cases - rate of 0.15 per 1,000 bed days.

Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust: 14 cases - rate of 0.15 per 1,000 bed days.

North Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust: 9 cases - rate of 0.14 per 1,000 bed days.

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust: 47 cases - rate of 0.14 per 1,000 bed days.

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: 13 cases - rate of 0.14 per 1,000 bed days.

The Walton Centre for Neurology & Neurosurgery NHS Trust: 3 cases - rate of 0.14 per 1,000 bed days.

Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: 10 cases - rate of 0.14 per 1,000 bed days.

Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust: 18 cases - rate of 0.14 per 1,000 bed days.

South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust: 9 cases - rate of 0.14 per 1,000 bed days.

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust: 25 cases - rate of 0.13 per 1,000 bed days.

Heatherwood & Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Trust: 13 cases - rate of 0.13 per 1,000 bed days.

Airedale NHS Trust: 9 cases - rate of 0.13 per 1,000 bed days.

Medway NHS Trust: 14 cases - rate of 0.13 per 1,000 bed days.

Kettering General Hospital NHS Trust: 11 cases - rate of 0.13 per 1,000 bed days.

North West London Hospitals NHS Trust: 21 cases - rate of 0.13 per 1,000 bed days.

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust: 3 cases - rate of 0.13 per 1,000 bed days.

Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust: 11 cases - rate of 0.13 per 1,000 bed days.

Taunton & Somerset NHS Trust: 12 cases - rate of 0.12 per 1,000 bed days.

Essex Rivers Healthcare NHS Trust: 13 cases - rate of 0.12 per 1,000 bed days.

Blackpool, Fylde And Wyre Hospitals NHS Trust: 22 cases - rate of 0.12 per 1,000 bed days.

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 26 cases - rate of 0.12 per 1,000 bed days.

Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Trust: 18 cases - rate of 0.12 per 1,000 bed days.

Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust: 32 cases - rate of 0.12 per 1,000 bed days.

North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Trust: 15 cases - rate of 0.12 per 1,000 bed days.

North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust: 15 cases - rate of 0.12 per 1,000 bed days.

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 20 cases - rate of 0.12 per 1,000 bed days.

Morecambe Bay Hospitals NHS Trust: 18 cases - rate of 0.12 per 1,000 bed days.

Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust: 7 cases - rate of 0.12 per 1,000 bed days.

University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust: 23 cases - rate of 0.12 per 1,000 bed days.

East Somerset NHS Trust: 6 cases - rate of 0.12 per 1,000 bed days.

East Cheshire NHS Trust - 7 cases - rate of 0.11 per 1,000 bed days.

East & North Hertfordshire NHS Trust: 17 cases - rate of 0.11 per 1,000 bed days.

Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust: 29 cases - rate of 0.11 per 1,000 bed days.

Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: 9 cases - rate of 0.11 per 1,000 bed days.

North Cumbria Acute Hospitals NHS Trust: 12 cases - rate of 0.11 per 1,000 bed days.

Southend Hospital NHS Trust: 13 cases - rate of 0.11 per 1,000 bed days.

Salisbury Healthcare NHS Trust: 9 cases - rate of 0.11 per 1,000 bed days.

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust: 7 cases - rate of 0.10 per 1,000 bed days.

Wirral Hospital NHS Trust: 18 cases - rate of 0.10 per 1,000 bed days.

Scarborough & NE Yorkshire Healthcare NHS Trust: 8 cases - rate of 0.09 per 1,000 bed days.

Royal Liverpool Children's NHS Trust: 3 cases - rate of 0.09 per 1,000 bed days.

Rotherham General Hospitals NHS Trust: 9 cases - rate of 0.09 per 1,000 bed days.

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 15 cases - rate of 0.09 per 1,000 bed days.

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust: 5 cases - rate of 0.09 per 1,000 bed days.

County Durham and Darlington Acute Hospitals NHS Trust: 16 cases - rate of 0.08 per 1,000 bed days.

Northern Lincolnshire & Goole Hospitals NHS Trust: 12 cases - rate of 0.08 per 1,000 bed days.

The Royal Bournemouth & Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 11 cases - rate of 0.08 per 1,000 bed days.

Southport & Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust: 8 cases - rate of 0.08 per 1,000 bed days.

West Dorset General Hospitals NHS Trust : 5 cases - rate of 0.08 per 1,000 bed days.

Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 13 cases - rate of 0.08 per 1,000 bed days.

Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology NHS Trust: 1 case - rate of 0.08 per 1,000 bed days.

York Health Services NHS Trust: 9 cases - rate of 0.08 per 1,000 bed days.

Whipps Cross University Hospital NHS Trust : 9 cases - rate of 0.07 per 1,000 bed days.

Sheffield Children's Hospital NHS Trust: 1 case - rate of 0.06 per 1,000 bed days.

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust: 2 cases - rate of 0.06 per 1,000 bed days.

Birmingham Children's Hospitals NHS Trust : 2 cases - rate of 0.05 per 1,000 bed days.

Nuffield Orthopaedic NHS Trust: 1 case - rate of 0.05 per 1,000 bed days.

St Helen's & Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust: 6 cases - rate of 0.04 per 1,000 bed days.

The Cardiothoracic Centre - Liverpool NHS Trust: 1 case - rate of 0.04 per 1,000 bed days.

Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 4 cases - rate of 0.04 per 1,000 bed days.

Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust: 2 cases - rate of 0.03 per 1,000 bed days.

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust: 1 case - rate of 0.03 per 1,000 bed days.

Winchester & Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust: 2 cases - rate of 0.02 per 1,000 bed days.

Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust: 0 cases - rate of 0 per 1,000 bed days.

Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases NHS Foundation Trust: 0 cases - rate of 0 per 1,000 bed days.

Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic & District Hospital NHS Trust: 0 cases - rate of 0 per 1,000 bed days.

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: 0 cases - rate of 0 per 1,000 bed days.

Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust: 0 cases - rate of 0 per 1,000 bed days.

Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Trust: 0 cases - rate of 0 per 1,000 bed days.

Birmingham Women's Healthcare NHS Trust: 0 cases - rate of 0 per 1,000 bed days.