Surgical site infection (SSI): guidance, data and analysis
UKHSA helps hospitals record incidents of surgical site infection (SSI), to help improve surgical practice and prevent further infections.
A surgical site is the incision or cut in the skin made by a surgeon to carry out a surgical procedure, and the tissue handled or manipulated during the procedure.
A surgical site infection occurs when micro-organisms get into the part of the body that has been operated on and multiply in the tissues.
UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) helps hospitals record incidents of surgical site infection (SSI), to help improve surgical practice and prevent further infections.
Guidance
Data collection
Epidemiology
Annual reports on SSI from 2011 and earlier are available from the .
Diagnosis
Privacy
Updates to this page
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Added link to Surgical site infection surveillance privacy notice.
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First published.