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Hospital is MRSA-free after hand-washing campaign
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Medway Maritime Hospital has gone six months without an outbreak of MRSA, hospital chiefs have revealed.

The latest infection prevention and control figures show Medway NHS Foundation Trust has not seen a single case of MRSA bacteraemia - blood stream infections - in the past six months.

Head of infection prevention and control Linda Dempster said: “We are absolutely committed to doing everything within our power to reduce health care associated infections, and we are keen to open ourselves up to the scrutiny of others – we have nothing to hide.”

Mrs Dempster added that hand hygiene, either washing with soap and water or using alcohol hand rub, remains the most important factor in reducing infections.

She said: “While the majority of people used the rub regularly, there were some who didn’t and they were challenged in order to correct this.

“In fact we encourage everyone – patients and visitors – to challenge members of staff that they feel aren’t doing enough in terms of hand hygiene.”

*KOS Media, the publisher of this website, has been working with the NHS to improve hospital hygiene and stamp out superbugs.

The Clean, Safe, Healthy campaign has highlighted the importance of doctors and nurses, and hospital visitors, washing their hands to stop the spread of infections like C diff, MRSA and winter vomiting bug Norovirus.
POSTED: 30/01/2009 11:08:21

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Added: Saturday 31/01/2009 09:07:23 UK
This is fantastic news, however the headline is misleading, whilst there have been no bacteraemias, there will still be MRSA wound infections, MRSA and other bacteria found in catheters, and of course MRSA colonisation.
The published figures do not identify this and account for around six per cent of actual infections.
Whilst this performance must be applauded patients should be able to access other information on infections in individual hospitals.
Maria Cann, Kirkham, Lancs
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