Scottish health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has set a target for health boards to reduce C difficile rates among over-65s by 30 per cent by 2011.
She has also told boards they must not contract out any further hospital cleaning services.
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The government has failed to publish its requirements of the NHS by the deadline set in law for the first time.
A private hospital group has been fined £300,000 after a 14-year-old NHS-funded patient died in its care.
Publication of nurse staffing levels at each hospital in England – introduced after the Francis Inquiry to boost safety – has been quietly dropped, HSJ can reveal.
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