War on superbugs planned for NHS
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Health secretary pledges to 'focus remorselessly' on patient care as he prepares to announce new cleanliness regulator.
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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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Probiotic yoghurts are used to cut the risk of patients developing superbugs at a Sussex hospital trust.
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Ministers set out measures to step up the fight against hospital infections, and say they are getting to grips with the bugs.
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The move to treat more people outside hospitals will be threatened if a key NHS reform is expanded further.
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In three years time, blood stream infections with the hospital superbug MRSA will have halved, the government will say.
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Britain has one of the worst rates of hospital-acquired M.R.S.A., or "superbug," bloodstream infections in Europe, and the problem is getting worse.
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Doctors have expressed concerns about the government's plans for a flu pandemic.
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Fighting the  "superbug" MRSA will be the top priority for the new chief nursing officer, the Health Secretary says.
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The State Government is set to spend more than $3 million on new sterilisation equipment at seven public hospitals to prevent a repeat of this week&#39;s Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease contamination scare.
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Public expectations of the NHS are running ahead of what the health service can deliver, research suggests.
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A health trust may have to bring in new practices to better monitor the hospital bug Clostridium difficile.
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The government is launching a proactive fight for hospitals to tackle MRSA and other infections.
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The MRSA superbug has played a part in 116 deaths in Northern Ireland in the past seven years, figures have shown. Nearly three quarters of those deaths occurred in the over-75 age group.
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Hospitals can stem the alarming spread of a dangerous and drug-resistant staph infection by screening new patients and keeping them quarantined, say doctors who tried this novel approach.
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A vaccine that has dramatically curbed pneumonia and other serious illnesses in children is having an unfortunate effect: promoting new superbugs that cause ear infections
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Over 100 hospital wards closed amid fears that infection will spread