King's Mill winning war on superbugs
Published Date:
01 December 2008
THE number of patients at King's Mill Hospital contracting the superbugs MRSA and Clostridium difficile (C.dif) continues to fall.
A board meeting of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust –– which runs King's Mill and Newark Hospital –– was told on Thursday there have been notable successes in cutting numbers of both.
The news was delivered as part the trust's second quarterly report, which was presented by chief executive Jeffrey Worrell.
He told the meeting there had been a 'huge improvement' in the number of cases of C.dif at the trust.
"In relation to C.dif we've had fantastic success," he said. "Previously we were seeing about 30 cases a month but now that is down to about eight a month."
And in the past two months there have only been three cases of MRSA, one in September and two in October.
Mr Worrell said, although every case of someone catching MRSA in hospital was a 'tragedy' the relative risk of contracting the illness was very small.
With over 70,000 admissions a year, the chance of an individual patient picking up MRSA is only 0.03 per cent.
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01 December 2008 11:10 AM
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