"The new figures from the Health Protection Agency show rates of the other major health care associated infection, MRSA, are dropping."
"Between April 2006 and March 2007, 6,378 cases of MRSA were reported, compared with 7,096 for the previous year. advertisement.....The biggest falls have been in large acute teaching hospitals and in London."
"Last week the Chief Medical Officer, in his annual report, highlighted the need for patients to challenge their doctors to wash their hands."
"It also found trusts with protected time for staff to concentrate on infection control had lower rates of infection.
But the target culture was a hindrance. Forty-five per cent of trusts said that they had difficulties managing the risk of such infection with the target for treating patients in accident and emergency quickly."
Twenty-nine per cent of trusts cited difficulties in reconciling control of infection and targets for waiting lists."
Managing healthcare by means of "targets" for treating patients in emergencies quickly.....and for waiting lists???
Dear GOD please help us stop the Socialists from taking full power in this country1!!
Hell, my wife and I work in a hospital, and hearing things like this gives me the creeps. I don’t work with patients, being in IT, but I’m still breathing the same air(they say the air completely changes every hour, but I don’t believe it). My wife works in the OB department, so she isn’t exposed to sick people. It’s still scary though, especially having young children at home.