Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Why I Won't Live in England #2 - Hospital Superbugs 

When you read news reports like this from last month:
The outbreak of norovirus, also known as the winter vomiting virus, has affected 16 patients at Maidstone hospital in Kent, one of three hospitals run by Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS trust, where 90 people died in two outbreaks of the Clostridium difficile bug last year.

A damning report by the Healthcare Commission this month accused the trust of "significant failings in infection control" after it found its hospitals had filthy wards and elderly patients were left to lie in their own faeces.
...it's no wonder that during our visit a relative was advised to go home because her ward had cases of the superbug. Like many other thing invented in the British Isles, modern medicine is there is no longer world class.

To make things worse:
Nearly 11,000 patients have died during the past seven months because of a failure by NHS hospitals to prevent them developing blood clots

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