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New figures from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) have revealed that the increase in the number of new MRSA bloodstream infections has slowed.

According to the HPA, there were 1,087 cases of the infection reported in England during the final quarter of last year, compared with 1,080 during the previous quarter.

Commenting on the figures, Dr Georgia Duckworth, head of the HPA’s healthcare-associated infection and antimicrobial resistance department, said that the last year has seen infections "steadily falling".

"We would obviously like to have seen the trend continued in this quarter and hope that ongoing surveillance will show that this plateau is not indicative of a levelling trend, but we need to see next quarter’s figures," she stated.

Conservative shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley claimed that the government’s efforts to address such infections in hospital are "misguided", the BBC reports.

The politician claimed that the "deep clean" undertaken by the NHS "wasn’t backed up by evidence".

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This entry was posted on Friday, April 25th, 2008 at 5:00 pm and is filed under Life Insurance.