Gordon Stalinist Brown pledge on NHS funding and MRSA
Hospitals are to use new deep clean techniques in which wards are stripped and subjected to steam cleaning and high strength disinfectant in an attempt to reduce outbreaks of MRSA and C difficle superbugs.
The move comes as Gordon Brown seeks to make the state of the National Health Service a top priority and will be funded with £50 million from strategic health authority budgets.
Deep cleaning will be used to target the superbug Clostridium difficile, which has proved more difficult to reduce than MRSA.
Hospitals are expected to begin the programme from December, although health professionals said that basic hygiene, such as handwashing and other cleanliness, was the key to eradicating hospital-acquired infections.
Mr Brown announced the move in a column in a Sunday newspaper, writing: “A ward at a time, walls, ceilings, fittings and ventilation shafts will be disinfected and scrubbed clean.”
Mike Penning, a Conservative health spokesman, said: “Thousands of relatives who have lost loved ones to hospital diseases each year will be asking, ‘What has Gordon Brown been doing for the past ten years?’”
From:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article2518134.ece
As for the prospective of an imminent general election- don't hold you breath as Brown like any bully is running scared. He hasn't got the funds nor the candidates in place
Sir Bob Worcester, of Mori, is unconvinced. “The polls are being so misread that I almost weep reading some of this nonsense,” he said. “There is absolutely no way this guy is going to call an election.”
Health Direct notes that the Stalinist's trite idea of deep cleaning hospitals over Christmas is as fatuous as John Not Fit For Purpose Reid's broken promise of halving the number of MRSA cases. The government hasn't a clue how many people have MRSA now- up until last month they only counted cases in the over 65 year olds.
Also Brown cynically doesn't promise clean wards. All he mentions is cleaner hospitals. Until he develops a zero tolerance towards dirty hospitals we are all going to suffer.
Earlier this year (11 Jan 07) Health Direct also posted that NHS hospitals may never achieve MRSA superbug targets when the NHS was not on track to meet its MRSA target and perhaps never will, a leaked labour government memo says.
On 2 May 07 Health Direct posted that Deadly NHS superbugs continue rising with C difficile again up when more hospital patients in England are getting the deadly Clostridium difficile bug, figures show.
Health Protection Agency (HPA) data showed 55,681 cases were reported among over 65s in 2006 - up 8% in a year. MRSA cases continued their downward trend, but they are not falling quickly enough to meet Labour's target next year.
The move comes as Gordon Brown seeks to make the state of the National Health Service a top priority and will be funded with £50 million from strategic health authority budgets.
Deep cleaning will be used to target the superbug Clostridium difficile, which has proved more difficult to reduce than MRSA.
Hospitals are expected to begin the programme from December, although health professionals said that basic hygiene, such as handwashing and other cleanliness, was the key to eradicating hospital-acquired infections.
Mr Brown announced the move in a column in a Sunday newspaper, writing: “A ward at a time, walls, ceilings, fittings and ventilation shafts will be disinfected and scrubbed clean.”
Mike Penning, a Conservative health spokesman, said: “Thousands of relatives who have lost loved ones to hospital diseases each year will be asking, ‘What has Gordon Brown been doing for the past ten years?’”
From:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article2518134.ece
As for the prospective of an imminent general election- don't hold you breath as Brown like any bully is running scared. He hasn't got the funds nor the candidates in place
Sir Bob Worcester, of Mori, is unconvinced. “The polls are being so misread that I almost weep reading some of this nonsense,” he said. “There is absolutely no way this guy is going to call an election.”
Health Direct notes that the Stalinist's trite idea of deep cleaning hospitals over Christmas is as fatuous as John Not Fit For Purpose Reid's broken promise of halving the number of MRSA cases. The government hasn't a clue how many people have MRSA now- up until last month they only counted cases in the over 65 year olds.
Also Brown cynically doesn't promise clean wards. All he mentions is cleaner hospitals. Until he develops a zero tolerance towards dirty hospitals we are all going to suffer.
Earlier this year (11 Jan 07) Health Direct also posted that NHS hospitals may never achieve MRSA superbug targets when the NHS was not on track to meet its MRSA target and perhaps never will, a leaked labour government memo says.
On 2 May 07 Health Direct posted that Deadly NHS superbugs continue rising with C difficile again up when more hospital patients in England are getting the deadly Clostridium difficile bug, figures show.
Health Protection Agency (HPA) data showed 55,681 cases were reported among over 65s in 2006 - up 8% in a year. MRSA cases continued their downward trend, but they are not falling quickly enough to meet Labour's target next year.
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