Infections cost Welsh NHS £50m a year

Healthcare-associated infections cost the NHS in Wales £50m per year and affect 6 per cent of hospital patients, says a report by the auditor general for Wales. This is fewer than in England and Scotland but more than Northern Ireland.

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