Kidney Diseases: Dialysis Machines

(asked on 3rd November 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many kidney dialysis patients have acquired hospital-borne infections in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 11th November 2021

The UK Health Security Agency carries out mandatory enhanced surveillance of infections in adult haemodialysis patients for National Health Service acute Trusts in England, including for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteraemia; Methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) bacteraemia; Clostridium difficile; and Escherichia coli bacteraemia.

This data is published by the UK Renal Registry in their annual report. The most recent annual report to include this data was published in July 2021, covering data to the end of 2019 and is available at the following link: https://ukkidney.org/sites/renal.org/files/publication/file-attachments/23rd_UKRR_ANNUAL_REPORT_0.pdf.

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