Plan to fight superbug across NHS
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Hospitals are told they must do more to tackle infections - including the MRSA superbug - at Welsh hospitals.
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The health secretary is to use a speech to try to allay fears over stripping hospitals of key services.
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The NHS is facing a blitz of inspections as a health watchdog uses new powers to crackdown on 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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LONDON - More than a quarter of the country's NHS Trusts are failing to meet hygiene regulations brought in to combat outbreaks of superbugs in hospitals, the Healtchare Commission reported on Thursday.
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Scotland's health standards watchdog says all hospital patients should be screened for MRSA.
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"This partnership could literally save lives, by coordinating investment in healthcare that is free, public and well-staffed"  LONDON  - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel announced on Wednesday a global health campaign to target aid more effectively at the basic needs of poor countries.The International Health Partnership, to be officially launched on September 5, aims to reduce child and maternal mortality and tackle diseases such as HIV/AIDS by building long-term health infrastructures in developing countries.The scheme will bring together donor countries like Britain, Germany, Canada and Norway as well as the World Bank and World Health Organisation. Rich nations would submit long-term health plans and international agencies would commit to better coordinate funding and efforts on the ground. Read more
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Sixteen hospital deaths in the Northern Trust area are linked to an outbreak of the superbug C. difficile.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to announce plans Monday for a new national screening programme to combat some of the country's biggest killer diseases, his office said.
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The new SNP administration is to set out its approach for tackling NHS waiting times in Scotland.
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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.
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Patients could be offered therapies such as acupuncture on the NHS under plans being considered by the assembly government.
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Patients are to be asked their views on NHS treatment in Scotland in a bid to improve services.
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Health Secretary Alan Johnson is expected to set out how he wants to reform the "sick-note" culture.
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Thousands of people could be paying for health care when the NHS should be footing the bill, it is thought.
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Think of germs as gangsters. One thug lurking on a corner you might outrun, but a dozen swaggering down the street? Yikes. Bacteria make their own gangs, clustering quietly in the body until there's a large enough group to begin an attack. This is the next frontier in fighting drug-resistant superbugs. The idea: Don't just try to kill bacteria. The bugs will always find a way to thwart the next antibiotic.
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Questions are being raised about the NHS's ability to push ahead with plans to close services.