Guidance

Mandatory healthcare associated infection surveillance: data quality statement

Data quality statements for the mandatory surveillance of healthcare associated infection (HCAI).

Documents

Mandatory healthcare associated infection surveillance: data quality statement for April 2019 to March 2020

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Details

These documents describe many of the aspects of quality assurance (QA) surrounding the routine publication of data for the mandatory surveillance of HCAI (MRSA, MSSA, and Gram-negative bacteraemia and C. difficile infection).

We will review and update these statements annually, towards the end of each financial year.

Previous reports were published by Public Health England.

Updates to this page

Published 7 April 2016
Last updated 9 June 2022 + show all updates
  1. Archived older reports and added 2022 report.

  2. Added 2020 statement.

  3. Added updated data quality statement.

  4. Replaced document with 'Mandatory Healthcare Associated Infection Surveillance: Data Quality Statement, April 2018'

  5. Updated version, June 2017.

  6. First published.

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