Hospital deep cleaning under fire
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Hospital bosses and cleaning firms are questioning the wisdom of the government's Â£50m deep clean programme.
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Substandard care at a southern Illinois Veterans Affairs hospital may have contributed to 19 deaths over the past two years
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A worker at Richmond's ASB Aquatic Centre was taken to hospital on Saturday with chemical burns after spilling cleaning fluid on herself.
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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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A group of health-care leaders are banding together to make hospitals a less dangerous place to get well.
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Most physician-owned specialty hospitals are poorly equipped to handle medical emergencies, federal investigators will report today, underscoring a longstanding concern about the rapid rise in the number of such hospitals.
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A "very serious" fire has swept through a leading cancer hospital in London, forcing its evacuation.
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A small clinic in Manhattan that handled the cases of thousands of sickened 9/11 recovery and cleanup workers is coming under scrutiny over its performance.
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US health officials are demanding better infection control methods in military hospitals after a number of infections were reported among forces injured in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Fears are raised over the handling of the NHS as figures show emergency readmission rates to hospital are rising.
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A Labour MP calls for an end to contract cleaning in NHS hospitals in a bid to crack down on the MRSA superbug.
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Mental health inpatients have to put up with poor and untherapeutic conditions on the wards, a survey finds.
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Patients should scrub up before coming to hospital to cut rates of the superbug MRSA, say advisors.
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Questions are being raised about the NHS's ability to push ahead with plans to close services.
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Concerns about safety and the care of dying patients dominate complaints to an NHS watchdog.
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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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A coroner castigates a hospital's standard of nursing care after four inquests.