Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 72: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that certain hospitals (details supplied) refuse to publish data on MRSA cases as there is no agreed basis for measuring; and if she will take steps to ensure all hospitals publish data in accordance with a suitable system of measurement as established by her. [19410/07]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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MRSA is not a notifiable disease. The Health Surveillance Centre of the HSE collects data on MRSA but this would not be regarded as a comprehensive national surveillance system. However, key personnel have now been employed by the HSE in this area and it is expected that a national hospital HCAI surveillance system will be in place in the near future. This will provide inter-hospital comparisons which will drive best practice in this important area.