MRSA bacteraemia: annual data
Source: gov.uk (2025-09-25)

Annual counts and rates of meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteraemia by acute trust and sub-integrated care board location (SICBL).

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The following data is included in the latest annual publication for MRSA bacteraemia.

From September 2023

Results by NHS organisation and sub-integrated care board location (SICBL)
- financial year counts and rates of C. difficile infection and by prior trust exposure from April 2007 to March 2023
- financial year counts and rates of MRSA bacteraemia and by onset status from April 2007 to March 2023
From September 2021

Results by NHS organisation
- financial year counts and rates of MRSA bacteraemia and by onset status from April 2007 to March 2021
From July 2018

Results by post infection review (PIR) assignment
- quarterly counts of MRSA bacteraemia from April 2013 to March 2018 - PIR trust assigned cases only (table 1a)
- quarterly counts of MRSA bacteraemia from April 2013 to March 2018 - PIR clinical commissioning group (CCG) assigned cases only (table 1b)
- financial year counts and rates of MRSA bacteraemia from April 2013 to March 2018 - PIR trust assigned cases only (table 2a)
- financial year counts and rates of MRSA bacteraemia from April 2013 to March 2018 - PIR CCG assigned cases only (table 2b)
Results by NHS acute trust
- quarterly counts of MRSA bacteraemia by NHS acute trust and by onset status from April 2007 to March 2018 (table 3)
- financial year counts and rates of MRSA bacteraemia and by onset status from April 2007 to March 2018 (table 4)
Results by CCG
- quarterly counts of MRSA bacteraemia by clinical commissioning group (CCG) and by onset status from April 2009 to March 2018 (table 5)
- financial year counts and rates of MRSA bacteraemia by clinical commissioning group (CCG) and by onset status from April 2009 to March 2018 (table 6)
For commentary on this data see MRSA, MSSA and Gram-negative bacteraemia and C. difficile infection: annual epidemiological commentary (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mrsa-mssa-and-e-coli-bacteraemia-and-c-difficile-infection-annual-epidemiological-commentary).

From July 2014

Results by PIR assignment
- quarterly counts of MRSA bacteraemia from April 2013 to March 2017 - PIR trust assigned cases only (table 1a)
- quarterly counts of MRSA bacteraemia from April 2013 to March 2017 - PIR CCG assigned cases only (table 1b)
- financial year counts and rates of MRSA bacteraemia from April 2013 to March 2017 - PIR trust assigned cases only (table 2a)
- financial year counts and rates of MRSA bacteraemia from April 2013 to March 2017 - PIR CCG assigned cases only (table 2b)
Results by NHS acute trust
- quarterly counts of MRSA bacteraemia from April 2007 to March 2017 - all reported cases (table 3a)
- quarterly counts of MRSA bacteraemia from April 2008 to March 2017 - trust apportioned cases only (table 3b)
- financial year counts and rates of MRSA bacteraemia from April 2007 to March 2017 - all reported cases (table 4a)
- financial year counts and rates of MRSA bacteraemia from April 2008 to March 2017 - trust apportioned cases only (table 4b)
Results by CCG
- quarterly counts of MRSA bacteraemia from April 2009 to March 2017 (table 5)
- financial year counts and rates of MRSA bacteraemia from April 2009 to March 2017 (table 6)
For older MRSA tables, see the UK Government Web Archive (http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140629102627/http://www.hpa.org.uk/web/HPAweb&HPAwebStandard/HPAweb_C/1233906819629).