Release

Deaths involving Clostridium difficile or MRSA, Wales: 2015

Released: 10 August 2016 9:30am
Next release: August 2017

Summary

This bulletin presents the latest figures on deaths mentioning either Clostridium difficile infection or Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Figures are presented for Wales and are broken down by sex, age group and whether the death occurred in hospital or elsewhere.

Publications

Data

  • Deaths involving Clostridium difficile

    Number of deaths where Clostridium difficile is involved. Age-specific and age-standardised rates broken down by sex and age group and place of death, Wales 1999, 2001 to 2016.

  • Deaths involving MRSA: Wales

    Numbers, age-standardised rates, age-specific rates and place of occurrence for deaths involving MRSA and Staphylococcus aureus, Wales, 1993 to 2016.

Contact details

Name

Dr. Ben Windsor-Shellard

Email

Ben.Windsor-Shellard@ons.gov.uk

Phone

+44 (0)1633 456068

About the data

Accredited Official Statistics

These are accredited official statistics. They have been independently reviewed by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) and found to comply with the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics. This broadly means that the statistics:

  • meet user needs
  • are presented clearly and accessibly
  • are produced using appropriate data and sound methods
  • are managed impartially and objectively in the public interest

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The phrase 'Pre-release Access' refers to the practice whereby official statistics in their final form, and any accompanying written commentary, are made available to an eligible person in advance of their publication. The rules and principles which govern pre-release access are featured within the Pre-release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008.

Besides ONS staff, the following persons are given pre-release access by the period indicated before release.

| Access granted to | | | Organisation | | :— | :— | :— | :— | | Deputy Chief Medical Officer | | | Welsh Government | | Minister for Social Services and Public Health | | | Welsh Government | | Policy Lead | | | Welsh Government | | Statistician | | | Welsh Government | | Head of Health Statistics and Analysis | | | Welsh Government |