David Burrowes
Conservative, Enfield, Southgate
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS trusts have failed to reach their targets for reducing hospital acquired infections; and how many such trusts have been fined for such a failure in each of the last three years.
Daniel Poulter
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
The following tables provide the number of trusts that have breached their Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Clostridium difficile objectives over the last three years.
| MRSA | Number of trusts breaching their objective |
| 2010-11 | 36 |
| 2011-12 | 36 |
| 2012-13 | 55 |
| 2013-14 1 | 123 |
| 1 Forecast | |
| Clostridium difficile | Number of trusts breaching their objective |
| 2010-11 | 9 |
| 2011-12 | 50 |
| 2012-13 | 59 |
| 2013-141 | 91 |
| 1 Forecast Source: The information in the previous tables is supplied by NHS England. | |
In relation to the number of sanctions applied to those trusts that have breached their objectives, NHS England is unable to provide this information as it is not collected centrally.
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