Weekly MRSA and C. difficile Counts from UK Hospitals

Weekly hospital-apportioned counts of MRSA bacteraemia and Clostridium difficile infections. The dataset includes a rolling 12-week period of unsigned-off MRSA bacteraemia counts. It is published by the Health Protection Agency under the OGL-UK-3.0 license and was last updated on 2026-07-08.

Use Cases

• Monitor weekly trends in MRSA bacteraemia based on the rolling 12-week counts.
• Analyze patterns of Clostridium difficile infections in hospital settings.
• Track the apportionment of infection cases across different hospitals.
• Model the temporal dynamics of hospital-acquired infections.

Strengths

• Data is updated weekly, providing near-real-time monitoring.
• Includes a rolling 12-week period for trend analysis of MRSA counts.
• Published by the authoritative Health Protection Agency.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Health Protection Agency

Collection Method

Weekly hospital-apportioned counts.

Time Range

Rolling 12-week period.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:54.129273; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Likely United Kingdom, given the source platform.