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Thursday, 16 October 2008
Friday, 23 February 2007
Deaths caused by two superbugs soar as health inspectorate accuses UK government
Deaths caused by two superbugs soar as health inspectorate accuses government
Extract:
"The number of deaths caused by two superbugs soared in 2005, raising new concerns over the standard of hygiene at hospitals across the country. According to government statistics, the number of deaths linked to MRSA rose by 39% in 2005 and deaths linked to a second superbug, Clostridium difficile, increased by 69%.
The head of the health inspectorate accused the government yesterday of failing to give enough priority to patient safety while Age Concern accused it of shirking responsibility for cleaning hospitals.
Levin Wheller of the Office for National Statistics said cases of superbugs had increased dramatically since MRSA emerged in the 1990s. C. difficile is now recorded as the cause or a factor in more than twice as many deaths as MRSA: 1,629 people died after contracting MRSA and 3,807 after C. difficile in 2005.
The new figures show that C. difficile-related deaths now outnumber deaths on UK roads. In 2005, 3,201 people were killed in road accidents, a 1% fall on 2004.
Men are twice as likely to contract MRSA as women. Mr Wheller suggested one reason could be personal hygiene; other factors might include the type of operations they are having. The vast majority of deaths were among the over-75s."
See Thousands of hospital staff fail to wash hands correctly
Dirty Hands, Dirty Health Service (UK) - The reason we have MRSA and C Diff on hospital wards?
Extract:
"The number of deaths caused by two superbugs soared in 2005, raising new concerns over the standard of hygiene at hospitals across the country. According to government statistics, the number of deaths linked to MRSA rose by 39% in 2005 and deaths linked to a second superbug, Clostridium difficile, increased by 69%.
The head of the health inspectorate accused the government yesterday of failing to give enough priority to patient safety while Age Concern accused it of shirking responsibility for cleaning hospitals.
Levin Wheller of the Office for National Statistics said cases of superbugs had increased dramatically since MRSA emerged in the 1990s. C. difficile is now recorded as the cause or a factor in more than twice as many deaths as MRSA: 1,629 people died after contracting MRSA and 3,807 after C. difficile in 2005.
The new figures show that C. difficile-related deaths now outnumber deaths on UK roads. In 2005, 3,201 people were killed in road accidents, a 1% fall on 2004.
Men are twice as likely to contract MRSA as women. Mr Wheller suggested one reason could be personal hygiene; other factors might include the type of operations they are having. The vast majority of deaths were among the over-75s."
See Thousands of hospital staff fail to wash hands correctly
Dirty Hands, Dirty Health Service (UK) - The reason we have MRSA and C Diff on hospital wards?
Sunday, 4 February 2007
Dirty Hands, Dirty Health Service (UK) - The reason we have MRSA and C Diff on hospital wards?
Dirty hands, Dirty Health Service
Extract:
"We are told that all the major advances in health in the last 100 years are the result of improved public sanitation and hygiene and not medicine and yet here I saw health practitioners and managers failing to do what they should have been taught as children.
Is it any wonder that we have MRSA and C Diff on our wards if hand washing is not practised in public conveniences let alone hospital corridors?"
Doctors who do not wash their hands after visiting the toilet should be severely disciplined. - I suggest that sacking them would be appropriate for a start...
Extract:
"We are told that all the major advances in health in the last 100 years are the result of improved public sanitation and hygiene and not medicine and yet here I saw health practitioners and managers failing to do what they should have been taught as children.
Is it any wonder that we have MRSA and C Diff on our wards if hand washing is not practised in public conveniences let alone hospital corridors?"
Doctors who do not wash their hands after visiting the toilet should be severely disciplined. - I suggest that sacking them would be appropriate for a start...
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