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Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
Time to be confirmed on request
Infection Prevention Masterclass
East Surrey Hospital
10th October 2012
Derek Butler will give the patient experience of MRSA
Contact info@mrsaactionuk.net for time and more information.
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Health minister Andy Burnham has insisted the government can still meet its target to cut rates of hospital superbug MRSA, after a leaked memo shows the NHS is set to miss it.
The battle against MRSA is showing signs of success, with cases down by a third compared to last year.
The Department of Health's (DoH) attempts to combat hospital 'super bugs' have achieved mixed results.
The new health secretary Alan Johnson has admitted the government failed to carry NHS professionals on past reforms.
NHS hospitals are likely to miss targets to complete deep cleaning operations by the end of March.
The government has today hit back at the Conservatives' new health reform plans, saying their pledge to scrap NHS targets would result in an increase in MRSA.
More than 200 hospital trusts have been branded "weak" in the way they manage their resources under tough new performance ratings by the Healthcare Commission.
Only a third of NHS trusts are fully complying with patient safety alerts, campaigners has claimed.
A widespread failure across the NHS to comply with patient safety standards has been described as "shocking" by the Action Against Medical Accidents (AvMA) charity.
Hundreds of thousands of older people are suffering from malnutrition in hospitals - partly because nurses do not have the time to help them eat, a new report warns.
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Department of Health survey shows how important a clean hospital is to patients, but fails to ask the important question about food
For the first time since the increased frequency in reporting of the superbugs MRSA and Clostridium difficile in 2009, there has been a slowing in the reduction of healthcare associated infections nationally. The proportion of the 1,513 MRSA cases acquired in hospital did not reduce, and even more concerning, the 25,157 cases of Clostridium difficile showed that cases in the community had increased by 3.6% over the 13-month period September 2011 to September 2012 compared to the previous 13-month period.
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