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Key Points

• The number of death certificates mentioning Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) fell by 34% on the previous year, from 29 in 2012 to 19 in 2013.
   
• Of the 19 death certificates mentioning MRSA, 9 (47%) also identified this germ as the underlying cause of death.
   
• Deaths involving MRSA have fallen to date since peaking in 2005. In 2013, the age-standardised rate for deaths mentioning MRSA was 6.3 per million population compared with 40.2 per million in 2005.
   
• In the period 2009–13, deaths involving MRSA accounted for 0.1% of all deaths and 0.2% of all deaths in NHS hospitals.

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