Dear Sir or Madam, pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act please provide the following information: * How many NHS hospitals are there in the UK as a whole? * How many NHS hospitals have reported cases of hospital acquired infection in the last 2 years for which figures are available? * What proportion of all NHS hospitals use private sector cleaning services, what proportion of all NHS hospitals use inhouse (non-private sector) cleaning services? If any, what other forms of cleaning service are used in the NHS and what proportion of all NHS hospitals use them? * As previous question but replace 'all NHS hospitals' with 'NHS hospitals that have reported hospital acquired infections in the last 2 years for which figures are available'. Thank you Yours faithfully, Stephen Booth ------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: This message and any reply that you make will be published on the internet. Our privacy and copyright policies: http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/help/about#officers Is xxxxxx@xx.xxx.xxx.xx the wrong address for Freedom of Information requests to Department of Health? If so please let us know by emailing xxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx - we'll make sure future ones go to the right place. ------------------------------------------------------------------- This email was received from the INTERNET and scanned by the Government Secure Intranet anti-virus service supplied by Cable&Wireless in partnership with MessageLabs. (CCTM Certificate Number 2006/04/0007.) DH users see Email virus scanning on Delphi under Security in DH, for further details. In case of problems, please call the IT support helpdesk.