Dear Sir or Madam, in the past week my father has died and only now
we found out he had c-diff,contacted in stirling royal infirmary in
central Scotland,which aparnetly he had first contacted it back in
February in the named hospital we were never told he had c-diff
only mention of it was after he passed away

Yours faithfully, Maria Connelly

Dear Mrs Connelly,

Thank you for your email of 31 July from which we are sorry to hear of
your loss.

We apologise but we do not understand what you are asking for. With
reference to the subject line of your email: "Freedom of Information
request - nhs summary on c-diff in stirling royal infirmary in 07-08"
could you please clarify for us if you are requesting data on numbers of
cases of C Difficile within the Stirling Royal Infirmary?

Many thanks,
Public Information Access Office
Health Protection Agency
61 Colindale Avenue
London NW9 5DF
Tel: +44 (0)208 327 6920
Fax: +44 (0)208 327 6633

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Dear Freedom Of Information,

could you please send me the recorded number of cases of c-diff
within stirling royal infirmary in 07-08 thanks

Yours sincerely, m.connelly

Dear Mrs Connelly,

We regret that we are unable to help you in providing the information
you require because the Royal Stirling Infirmary is in Scotland and the
Health Protection Agency only covers England & Wales for healthcare
associated infection surveillance. The data we collect is for English
Acute NHS Trust's only. This is available at:

(http://www.hpa.org.uk/web/HPAweb&Pag...
6541).

We advise you to contact Health Protection Scotland and enclose the URL
for their website

http://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/index.aspx

Kind regards,
Public Information Access Office
Health Protection Agency
61 Colindale Avenue
London NW9 5DF
Tel: +44 (0)208 327 6920
Fax: +44 (0)208 327 6633

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