Fig. 5

The number of expected introductions over time, based on the prevalence in each referral region in 2014, and the number of transferred patients from each region, showing all patients colonised at admission, with the expected proportion admitted from other regions (grey) and highlighting the contribution of patients coming from the Manchester referral region (red). The remaining proportion (blue) of received colonised patients (up to 100%) were previously admitted to hospitals in the same referral region, including the same hospital. Red/blue dashed bars are shown for the Manchester region (*), because patients from the same region and those from the Manchester region are the same