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Hospital bug deaths 'scandalous' The deaths of 90 hospital patients from clostridium difficile are "scandalous", Health Secretary Alan Johnson has said. Kent police have launched an investigation into whether the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust should be prosecuted for the deaths. The Healthcare Commission said a "litany" of errors in infection control had caused the "avoidable tragedy". The trust said it had not been prepared for "an outbreak of that size and complexity" but had learned lessons. The commission's report said nurses at the trust were too rushed to wash hands and left patients to lie in their own excrement. For many of these patients there may well have been a good chance that they would have recovered if all steps had been taken Mr Johnson said he was shocked by the findings, but denied accusations the problems were caused by staff being put under pressures to meet government A and E targets.
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Carly Kerson is Mad. She is a bipolar schizophrenic paranoid delusional... look - she's MAD. - PC Bloggs [PC Bloggs - a Twenty-first Century Police Officer]As Inspector Gadget will tell you, it is the police's job to look after Carly. It is our job to ferry her to and from mental institutes, to stand at the doors of said institutes to bounce her back in when she escapes. To scour the streets and rivers for her when we don't get to the doors in time. To bind her arms and legs and watch her constantly for twelve hours in the cells when she has one of her "episodes". In fact, we police need to buck up our ideas. Do you know that there are custody sergeants up and down the country who refuse to have Carly in the cells? Who actually seem to think that being MAD is not a crime! Who suggest that if she is undergoing treatment in a psychiatric unit for people who are dangerous to themselves or others, that unit should take some responsibility for her welfare. The police have powers to detain someone who is mentally ill, for their own or others' safety, and take them somewhere to be mentally assessed. In practice, the process works as follows:
Carly Kerson is an intelligent woman. She has A-levels. She has a family that once loved her but now have no idea what to do with her. Carly is also extremely ill and maybe always will be. She deserves more than the police holding her arms and legs to the tarmac until she is screaming and terrified. She deserves more than a one-bedroom flat in a block of other ill people, with a "carer" whose job it isn't to put milk in the fridge, and who just calls the police if Carly isn't in when he arrives. God help the people who are merely depressed. Who aren't violent or manic or seen wandering the streets dressed in a bath-robe. Not even the police are there for them. --------------------------------------------------------- Copyright of PC Bloggs. 7:31:18 AM Comment on this Item |
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UK may get clean hospital lessons from French Britain could be told to learn basic hospital hygiene lessons from France and Slovenia as the European Union joins the battle against superbugs. Proposals for EU hospital cleanliness standards to reverse the rise of drug-resistant superbugs, including MRSA, are expected next year.
Britain has one of the worst records in Europe on potentially deadly hospital-acquired infections. The plans to clean up British and other European hospital wards will be modelled on France and Slovenia, both of which have managed to reduce incidence of, and deaths from, superbugs. |
