Hospitals: Infectious Diseases

(asked on 26th January 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an estimate of the (a) average and (b) total cost to the NHS of healthcare-associated infections.


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Dan Poulter Portrait
Dan Poulter
This question was answered on 2nd February 2015

The most recent reliable estimate of the cost of healthcare associated infections is derived from the Plowman Report, which estimated the cost to be £1 billion per year.

Although there is no systematic analysis of average costs of all healthcare associated infections, the average cost of Meticillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia is estimated to be £7,000 per case and Clostridium difficile infection is estimated to be £10,000 per case.

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