How doctors lie on death certificates to hide the true scale of the toll from hospital infectionsBy SUE REID - More by this author » Last updated at 01:13am on 3rd January 2008 Joan Horne once worked for the National Health Service. In her day the wards were scrubbed with bleach, while nurses washed their hands with soap and water before caring for a patient. If not, a strict matron wanted to know why. She has never forgotten the golden era of the NHS. So when 78-year-old Joan watched Edwin, her husband of 37 years, die after catching a...