All C difficile articles – Page 8
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Media Watch: deep clean
The government's deep clean and choice initiatives caused a big stink this week.
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Foundation trusts hit back over MRSA failures
Foundation trusts have hit back at criticism from Monitor over the number of hospitals failing to reduce MRSA rates.
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Exclusive: leaked letter shows tensions over C diff outbreak
A letter leaked to HSJ has revealed the strained relationship between the government and the Healthcare Commission following the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells infection outbreak.
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NHS constitution should spell out 'where the buck stops'
The King’s Fund has called for the creation of an NHS constitution to curb political interference and devolve real power to local managers.
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Trusts urged to recruit anti-infection staff
Hospitals have been pressed to employ up to five extra specialist staff as part of a government strategy to improve infection control.The government has set aside up to £45m to be invested in the scheme, out of a £270m fund identified in the comprehensive spending review for reducing healthcare-acquired infections.
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Bad PR will deter health service users, trusts told
Trust boards must address poor perceptions of the health service to justify a state-funded system, a senior Department of Health official has warned.
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Stephen Ramsden on the transformational approach to patient safety
To make real strides in patient safety, we must win the hearts and minds of NHS staff and patients, mobilising them to be drivers of change
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MP demands severance deal figure
A Conservative MP is demanding the Department of Health discloses the severance settlement paid last month to Mark Rees, the former chief executive of Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals trust.
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Infection control: C difficile measures improve at Stoke Mandeville
Buckinghamshire Hospitals trust has made 'significant progress' on infection control a year on from a Clostridium difficile outbreak that killed 33 people, says the Healthcare Commission. But the regulator highlighted doctors' poor hand hygiene as a serious concern in a follow-up report published today.
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Treasury may veto golden handshakes for trust chief executives
Future pay-offs to senior managers who leave under a cloud may have to be approved by the Treasury. It follows the furore over severance pay to former Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust chief executive Rose Gibb.
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HSJ Knowledge
Infection control: back to the boardroom
Informing the board and protecting patients were the key strands of one trust's infection control drive, writes Alison Norman
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Michael White on nursing standards
I didn't know whether to laugh or make plans to flee the country when I read weekend front-page headlines such as 'Nurses to have the power to end a life'
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US health: Sicko's grim diagnosis
It may be naive and polemical, but Michael Moore's controversial documentary Sicko reminds us we should treasure the NHS, says Noel Plumridge. Below, Empire magazine's Helen O'Hara reviews the film
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Behind closed doors: is Kent infection scandal a one-off?
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells’ Clostridium difficiledeaths drew intense scrutiny. Alison Moore looks at what went wrong, how it was kept quiet and lessons for the rest of the service
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Maidstone chair aims to regain trust of staff
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust has announced the appointment of an interim chair to steer it through the aftermath of the fatal outbreak of Clostridium difficile.
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Michael White on managers and motivation
If middle managers don't manage and nurses are poorly motivated, no amount of money can solve the NHS's problems, says Michael White
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Media Watch: Rose Gibb special
There's nothing the media likes more than an easy target and this week's was Rose Gibb, formerly chief executive of Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust, aka 'the dirtiest hospital in England'.
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Health check: trusts miss hygiene goals
Trusts have failed to hit targets for reducing MRSA and many are not meeting basic standards for hygiene and cleanliness.
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Former Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells chair was 'hung out to dry'
The chair of the hospital trust at the centre of an infection control scandal has attacked centralised control of the NHS as he stepped down.
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MRSA target has built-in 'wiggle room'
The government has given trusts some 'wiggle room' to maintain the new MRSA public service agreement beyond the target date of 2008.