Trust Board Febuary 2010 - Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals

SWBTB (2/10) 038 (a)
From 2010/11 MRSA bloodstream infections will be reported differently, with those diagnosed
within 48 hours of admission being attributed to the Primary Care Trust of origin, and only those
diagnosed after 48 hours being attributed to the acute Trust. To facilitate the setting of baselines,
comparative data from all organisations for the 12 month period October 2008 to September 2009
has been published, and the information for acute Trusts in the West Midlands is shown in Table 1.
As can be seen, SWBH is in the best performing quartile.
Table 1. Acute Trusts in the West Midlands
Name of NHS Trust
Post 48 hour cases
October 2008 to
September 2009
MRSA bacteraemia
per 100,000 bed days
Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 2 2.47
Birmingham Women's NHS Foundation Trust 0 0
Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 7 5.16
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust 3 2.72
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust 17 3.01
Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust 2 2.22
Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust 3 2.21
Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic and District
Hospital NHS Trust
0 0
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust 6 1.68
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust 7 2.53
South Warwickshire General Hospitals NHS Trust 4 2.69
The Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 2 0.78
The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 0 0
The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust 5 2.17
University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust 17 4.62
University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust 17 4.67
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust 9 2.49
Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust 7 3.86