Matrons 'to lead superbug fight'
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The government launches a 'matron's charter', based on the ideas of Florence Nightingale, to improve hospital cleanliness.
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Compensation claims over the MRSA superbug may rise as lawyers use workplace laws to pursue hospitals.
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Support staff hired to help midwives could put mothers and babies at risk by doing their jobs, claims a report.
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Up to Â£45m could be spent on infection control nurses, isolation nurses and antimicrobial pharmacists for every hospital trust
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Members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association challenged the head of the National Labor Relations Board yesterday over a decision that could enable employers to remove nursing supervisors from the ranks of union members.
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Ministers will unveil plans to give health workers are to be given more protection against attacks in communities.
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Hospitals across the Washington region are mounting increasingly aggressive defenses against a virulent bacterium resistant to antibiotics that turns seemingly minor skin abrasions, cuts and sores into serious, even life-threatening, infections.
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By Sean Poulter  A SUPERBUG similar to MRSA which affects thousands of hospital patients has been found in farm animals and meat.
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Legal action is launched over a row about whether a new hospital plans to leave enough space between beds to prevent the spread of infections.
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Hospitals told to start special hiring; Health minister says funding is sign province is in &#39;high gear&#39; against C. diff. Quebec Order of Nurses president Gyslaine Desrosiers told a nursing convention yesterday
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Pregnant women, babies and toddlers would join doctors, emergency workers and soldiers at the head of the line for scarce vaccine if a super-strain of flu triggers the next pandemic, says a draft government plan to be released Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON: World Health Organisation and US medical experts warn that the increasing ability of bacteria to resist antibiotics threatens the existing arsenal of drugs against dangerous infectious diseases.
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Health secretary says too many request antibiotics despite evidence that they will not be effective
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WASHINGTON : World Health Organization and US medical experts warn that the increasing ability of bacteria to resist antibiotics threatens the existing arsenal of drugs against dangerous infectious diseases.
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Idea that hospitals should be fined for every patient who contracts a superbug nothing new, says Labour
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Probiotic yoghurts are used to cut the risk of patients developing superbugs at a Sussex hospital trust.
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Testing all new hospital patients for a dangerous staph "superbug" could help wipe out a germ that likely kills more Americans than AIDS, consumer advocates say and early evidence suggests.