MRSA figures tip of the iceberg, warns campaigner

MRSA figures compiled by the Government are only a fraction of the total number of cases, according to a leading campaigner in the fight against hospital superbugs.

Dr Teresa Graham, founding member of Stop Infections Now, said because only bloodstream infections of MRSA are being recorded, it is impossible to know exactly how many cases there are and she called for all MRSA cases to be collated.

Dr Graham said from her research, and what she was hearing from sufferers, wound infections, which are not notifiable, are now far outstripping bloodstream infections.