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Good luck to these families in their demand for full public enquiry. It would appear these patients lost their lives to a desease which could have been beaten by simple regard to proper cleanliness. Those responsible for this neglect should not be allowed to vanish over the horizon. or to use a distasteful but accurate pun, -'sweep their dirt under the carpet', yet again.

This was an accident waiting to happen. Too many cost cutting exercises and money saving schemes by NHS managers in slashing the budgets of ancillary groups (porters, domestics, catering & laundry) meant this was inevitable. The trade unions want to take a look at themselves as well. Too busy pointing fingers and neglecting to take proper action. Unfortunately, as NHS managers are budget driven with saving money far more important than patients lives and welfare, this will happen again and again.

as well as the wards needing sterilized , does other areas have proffesional trained crews checking the work thoroughly? why i am asking this is , one young person is working as a cleaner in a hospital who found it difficult to do normal housework in her own place at home! there is a website that people can check up re health inspectors reports and it would amaze you the business's that get good grades for cleanliness,,,some of the places you would not even take a glass of water in these premises,or use the toilets,,,,the kitchens need looked at in some of the hospitals and where the food is transported from and the trucks etc,...come on you people clean up your act from a to z,penicillin does not cure everything(the prisoners never get sick, i guess the cooks in these places know what they would look forward to if the inmates did get ill through not keeping on top of things.!

i live in the area covered by the hospital and it does not surprise me that this has happened, they wish to close the hospital and are not interested in trying to keep it clean, we even had a doctor say that the reason so many were dying of c.diff was because they were old.

i believe the doctor when he said that some of the people are old so therefore are more prone to infections as are babies and sick patients, most doctors will tell you that the reason you do not feel very well is...."you are older now" (it covers their failures then they are allowed to bury their mistakesha ha.

Clostridium Difficile Clostridium Difficile, is now recognised as the chief cause of hospital acquired Diarrhoea in the US and Europe, and not only in hospitals but also in nursing homes and other facilities for long term care. Initial recognition of this disease began in the 1970s, with reports of a serious, sometimes lethal colitis, characterised by the formation of pseudo-membranous plaques. The cause was identified as Clostridium Difficile in 1978, and it is a Superbug that is more enduring, than MRSA. In 2004 in the UK, there were 43,672 cases of Clostridium Difficile, this is an amazing and frightening two-fold increase from 2001. In 2006 the figure rose to 66,000. The continued lack of reasonable cleanliness in hospitals in the UK and the uncontrolled use of cheap broad spectrum antibiotics (against hospital guidelines) that strip our gut flora, leave us wide open to C-diff infection. This means that we have had this condition killing patients for over thirty years, but healthcare professionals have considered it not relevant enough to inform patient's relatives. Inform them that their loved one died of a Superbug and it was totally unassociated with the reason they were in the hospital in the first place. So perhaps since the seventies, just like MRSA, patients have been going into hospitals to be cured, only to be killed by an erroneous hospital acquired infection. If you or your loved one go into hospital and develop diarrhoea demand that a stool sample be taken and tested for C-Diff toxin. If you are C-Diff positive the usual treatment is metronidazole or oral vancomycin. Mark Birtles ps have a look at Wins Story on youtube [bold]bold[/bold]

Having been in the Southern General, maximillo Facial unit, only to find no soap in the tiolet. Yet the HSE had lanched a clean hands campaign and the NHS had yet to follow. Did speak to reception and having waited around (had appointment), the dispener was not filled. Add - that consultant refused treatment, also place a complaint in writing that was taken to director level, my confidence & confidentiality was broken by the NHS complaints team and gave much as to why I would never if possible use NHS. The consultant without gloves, ID & speaking millimetres from my mouth without face mask, [personal information about their wife] were all ignored. Felt vurry ill after the event.