Suspected and laboratory-confirmed reported norovirus outbreaks in hospitals: outbreaks occurring in weeks 1 to 4, 2016
Updated 13 January 2017
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The hospital norovirus outbreak reporting scheme (HNORS) recorded 24 outbreaks occurring between weeks 1 and 4, 2016, 22 of which led to ward/bay closures or restriction to admissions. Eighteen outbreaks (75%) were recorded as laboratory confirmed due to norovirus. Between week 1 (January 2015) and week 53 (week beginning 28 December 2015) 662 outbreaks were reported. Ninety-three per cent (617) of reported outbreaks resulted in ward/bay closures or restrictions to admissions and 66% (436) were laboratory confirmed as due to norovirus.
Suspected and laboratory-confirmed reported norovirus outbreaks in hospitals, with regional breakdown: outbreaks occurring in weeks 1 to 4 of 2016
| Region/PHE Centre | Outbreaks between weeks 1 to 4/2016 | Total outbreaks weeks 1 to 53/2015 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ģż | Outbreaks | Ward/bay closure* | Lab-confirmed | Outbreaks | Ward/bay closure* | Lab-confirmed |
| Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire | 3 | 3 | 3 | 81 | 79 | 59 |
| Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Northamptonshire | 바카라 사이트 | 바카라 사이트 | 바카라 사이트 | 9 | 9 | 7 |
| Cheshire and Merseyside | 바카라 사이트 | 바카라 사이트 | 바카라 사이트 | 8 | 6 | 8 |
| Cumbria and Lancashire | 바카라 사이트 | 바카라 사이트 | 바카라 사이트 | 40 | 39 | 21 |
| Devon, Cornwall and Somerset | 1 | 1 | 1 | 121 | 121 | 81 |
| Greater Manchester | 바카라 사이트 | 바카라 사이트 | 바카라 사이트 | 18 | 15 | 8 |
| Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Dorset | 6 | 6 | 5 | 26 | 25 | 21 |
| Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire | 바카라 사이트 | 바카라 사이트 | 바카라 사이트 | 29 | 26 | 22 |
| London | 바카라 사이트 | 바카라 사이트 | 바카라 사이트 | 5 | 4 | 2 |
| Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex | 바카라 사이트 | 바카라 사이트 | 바카라 사이트 | 바카라 사이트 | 바카라 사이트 | 바카라 사이트 |
| North east | 8 | 7 | 5 | 72 | 66 | 43 |
| Sussex, Surrey and Kent | 바카라 사이트 | 바카라 사이트 | 바카라 사이트 | 28 | 28 | 19 |
| Thames Valley | 3 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 2 |
| West Midlands | 2 | 2 | 2 | 116 | 113 | 61 |
| Yorkshire and the Humber | 1 | 바카라 사이트 | 1 | 99 | 78 | 82 |
| Total | 24 | 22 | 18 | 662 | 617 | 436 |
* Note: not all outbreaks result in whole wards closures, some closures are restricted to bays only.
In the current season to date 바카라 사이트 (from week 27, 2015, to week 4, 2016), there were 477 laboratory reports of norovirus. This is 62% lower than the average number of laboratory reports for the same period in the seasons between 2009/2010 and 2013/2014 (1252).
바카라 사이트 The norovirus season runs from July to June (week 27 in year 1 to week 26 in year 2) in order to capture the winter peak in one season.
Note:the number of laboratory reports in the most recent weeks will increase as further reports are received. On 1 December 2014 a new laboratory reporting system was commissioned; as a result, direct comparisons between earlier reports (based on LabBase2) and the new system (SGSS) may not be valid.