Legionnaires' Disease Infection from Domestic Hot Water Supplies
Dear NHS National Services Scotland,
I believe that the following request should be dealt with by Health Protection Scotland.
Please let me have the number of reported cases of Legionnaires' Disease in Scotland in 2009, 2010 and 2011:
[a] The total number of cases resulting from all sources of
infection.
Also, if this can be done conveniently, it would be useful to have these totals broken down as to where the infection is recorded as having been acquired:
- In the community.
- As nosocomial infection.
- During travel abroad.
- During travel in the UK.
[b] The number of cases where the infection was specifically
determined to have been contracted from domestic hot water supplies in Scotland.
(Please let me emphasise that I want the numbers resulting from *domestic* hot water supplies - not hot water supplies in hospitals, factories, hotels and so on.)
For these cases, please indicate how many of them were confirmed by microbiological testing ie where testing showed that the organism found in the hot water system was indistinguishable from the infecting clinical strain.
Yours faithfully,
M. Ackroyd
Dear NHS National Services Scotland,
According to my notes, I sent you a Freedom of Information request on 30 October. Did it reach you?
Yours faithfully,
M. Ackroyd
Dear M. Ackroyd
Thank you for your email of 30 October 2012 requesting the number of
reported cases of Legionnaires Disease in Scotland in 2009, 2010 and
2011.
We are currently considering your request and will reply to you in more
detail as soon as possible but not later than 27 November 2012.
If for any reason this situation changes, we will notify you as soon as
possible.
Yours sincerely
Sylvia Odusanya
Information Governance and Data Quality Manager
Health Protection Development Team
Health Protection Scotland
NHS National Services Scotland
Meridian Court
5 Cadogan Street
Glasgow
G2 6QE
Tel: 0141 300 1100
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Dear Sir/Madam
Please find attached a reply to the request made by M Ackroyd.
Best wishes
Alison Potts
Dr Alison Potts
Epidemiologist - Immunisation and Respiratory Teams
Health Protection Scotland
NHS National Services Scotland
Meridian Court, 5 Cadogan Street, Glasgow. G2 6QE
t: 0141-282 2931 f: 0141-300-1170
alison.potts[1]@nhs.net
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