Recorded cases at the Hospital 2022 to 2024 (FOI

​Request 674033872

For the years 2022-2024, provide the number of recorded cases of the following in Jersey's General Hospital, broken down by month:

• Covid
• Flu
• RSV
  
• Norovirus
• MRSA
• Clostridium Difficile
• Measles
• Scabies

Response

The infection data for this response relate to patients admitted between 01 January 2022 and 31 December 2024. 

Reporting for Covid, Influenza (‘Flu’), Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and Norovirus uses laboratory confirmed infection data. Cases ‘treated as’ any of these infections without laboratory confirmation of the diagnosis will not be captured in the datasets. 

Infections are attributed to the month they were first reported, as recorded in laboratory data. Only the first positive test result for each patient admission is counted, avoiding duplication where multiple tests exist for a patient for the same infection.

Please see attached tables:

Table 1 - JGH admitted patients testing positive for Covid.pdf

Table 2 - JGH admitted patients testing positive for specified infections.docx.pdf

Where fewer than five patients are recorded with an infection in any single month, disclosure controls have been applied to protect individuals from identification, and numbers are shown as ‘<5’. Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied to protect the privacy of individuals. Where it is possible to provide annual totals without indirectly disclosing small numbers, these are shown.

Figures for Influenza include total positive cases of ‘Flu A and ‘Flu B combined. Owing to small numbers in patients testing positive for ‘Flu B infection, it is not possible to disclose monthly or annual figures for these data separately. Of the 199 positive tests reported for Influenza from January 2022 to December 2024, 191 were ‘Flu A, and 8 were ‘Flu B.

One case of measles has been recorded over the three year period.

No cases of scabies have been recorded over the three year period.

Data for Clostridium difficile (C. diff), methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) bacteraemia are those recorded for hospital-associated cases only.

No cases of MRSA bacteraemia have been recorded over the period from January 2022 to December 2024.

11 cases of MSSA bacteraemia have been recorded across the period from January 2022 to December 2024. Owing to small numbers, it is not possible to disclose monthly or annual figures.

Figures for C. diff infections recorded from January 2022 to October 2024 are available in the Health and Care Jersey Quality and Performance Reports, and data for November 2024 to December 2024 can be found in the January 2025 Health and Care Jersey Advisory Board papers, available through www.gov.je:

Health and Care Jersey Quality and Performance Reports

Health and Care Jersey Services Board​

As this information is available elsewhere, Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

Articles applied

Article 23 - Information accessible to applicant by other means

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(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.

Article 25 - Personal information

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018.

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018; and

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.