Mandatory Surveillance of Glycopeptide Resistant Enterococcal Bacteraemia (GRE) in the UK

UK mandatory surveillance data on Glycopeptide Resistant Enterococcal (GRE) bacteraemia cases, collected by the Health Protection Agency. The dataset is designated as Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics and is licensed under OGL-UK-3.0. Its last recorded update was on 2026-07-08.

Use Cases

• Tracking temporal trends in GRE bacteraemia incidence based on mandatory surveillance reporting.
• Analyzing geographic distribution of antibiotic-resistant infections based on UK surveillance data.
• Informing public health policy and infection control measures based on official surveillance statistics.

Strengths

• Data originates from a mandatory national surveillance program, suggesting systematic collection.
• Licensed under OGL-UK-3.0, which permits open use and sharing.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Health Protection Agency

Collection Method

Mandatory surveillance

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:56.794751; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom