What is Great Ormond Street’s record?
The likelihood of a child acquiring MRSA in GOSH is low – less than 15 children a year acquired MRSA here and over the last five years the chance that your child will catch MRSA when in our hospital has actually fallen. We are not complacent and we want to reduce that risk still further. Measured by the number of serious blood infections, or by the number of cases of cross infection, Great Ormond Street is one of the best Trusts in London. 88% of in-patients with MRSA at Great Ormond Street already had it on admission. That is, only one child in eight with MRSA at GOSH actually caught it here. It is a serious issue. In the last five years, twenty children under three at GOSH have become seriously ill because of MRSA infection. Many of these children had the bacterium when admitted but we all have to work together to prevent cross infection.
