MRSA screening (FOI)

Request

A

How many Screening swabs among eye clinic staff have been done in the last five years please?

B

Can you classify how many were locum staff and how many were non-locum staff please?

C

How many staff had this re-tested?

D

Do you have data on eye clinic referred patients who had MRSA positive results in the last five years -on a bar chart?

E

How endemic is this, for example in more than 25% population that visits jersey general hospital?

Response

A and C

All staff are requested to undertake MRSA screening as a new starter to the Organisation (permanent and locum staff). Unless the staff in the eye clinic work in a high risk area (such as main theatre), staff in the eye clinic are generally not required to be regularly tested.

B

Number of staff new staff who have worked in the eye clinic in the last five years:

D

Outpatient patients would not be routinely tested for MRSA. They would require an MRSA screen if they were pre-op and only then if high risk eg known MRSA, have been an inpatient in hospital in past six months or live in care or are a healthcare worker.

E

Less than 1%.