Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 15 December 2021.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of requiring Integrated Care Systems to record the number of catheter associated urinary tract infections acquired by patients in (a) hospital care and (b) the community.
The United Kingdom Health Security Agency undertakes surveillance of bloodstream infections in hospital and community settings, including information on the infection source through National Health Service acute trusts, which will be part of the Integrated Care Systems, reporting infection cases. If a urinary source is identified, further information is requested around urinary catheterisation.
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