National Surveillance Programmes

The HCAI & AMR Department of the Centre for Infections runs national surveillance programmes to collect epidemiological data on healthcare associated infections (HCAI) and antimicrobial resistance.  

Surveillance Programmes include:

• Bacteraemia via routine laboratory reports of for a variety of micro-organisms, some of which are associated with healthcare settings
• Staphylococcus aureus (including MRSA) bacteraemia
• Surgical Site Infection Surveillance Service (SSISS) including mandatory orthopaedic SSI Surveillance.
• Clostridium difficile associated infection
• Enterococcus spp. and Glycopeptide resistant enterococci (GRE).

European-wide Surveillance

The HCAI & AMR department at the HPA coordinates UK data for the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance network (EARS-Net) which collects data on selected organisms enabling rates of antimicrobial resistance to be compared across Europe. EARS-Net is coordinated and funded by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).  The HCAI & AMR department contributes England’s Surgical Site Infection data to the Healthcare-associated Infections Surveillance Network (HAI-Net) to enable inter-country comparisons of SSI rates.

• Publication schedule for mandatory MRSA, MSSA, E. coli bacteraemia and Clostridium difficile infection surveillance
  Added/updated: 12 January 2012
  
• HCAI in in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales
  Other surveillance work for England and the devolved administrations
  Added/updated: 13 December 2010
  
• HCAI Reporting within Independent Sector healthcare organisations
  IS reporting launch page
  Added/updated: 30 March 2012
  
• Results for Mandatory Surveillance Data
  Quarterly mandatory surveillance results
  Added/updated: 2 November 2011
  
• Other publications relating to MRSA bacteraemia, MSSA bacteraemia and C difficile infection surveillance
  Listing all the infrequent non mandatory publication schedules
  Added/updated: 27 January 2012