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Hygiene standards slated at hospital where five died in C diff outbreak
Published Date: 21 December 2010
By Lyndsay Moss
Health Correspondent
A SCOTTISH hospital that suffered a major outbreak of the superbug Clostridium difficile has been criticised by inspectors over dirty equipment and standards of hygiene.
Their report on Ninewells Hospital in Dundee found poor compliance with hand hygiene rules, soiled equipment marked as clean and overfilled dirty linen bags.
The Healthcare Environment Inspectorate (HEI) also highlighted concerns about a patient with MRSA who was being treated on a ward with other patients without specific equipment dedicated for that person's use...
...Five patients died at Ninewells during an outbreak of C difficile in 2009. The cases are being looked at as part of the public inquiry into C difficile deaths at the Vale of Leven hospital in Alexandria, Dunbartonshire...
Hygiene standards slated at hospital where five died in C diff outbreak
Published Date: 21 December 2010
By Lyndsay Moss
Health Correspondent
A SCOTTISH hospital that suffered a major outbreak of the superbug Clostridium difficile has been criticised by inspectors over dirty equipment and standards of hygiene.
Their report on Ninewells Hospital in Dundee found poor compliance with hand hygiene rules, soiled equipment marked as clean and overfilled dirty linen bags.
The Healthcare Environment Inspectorate (HEI) also highlighted concerns about a patient with MRSA who was being treated on a ward with other patients without specific equipment dedicated for that person's use...
...Five patients died at Ninewells during an outbreak of C difficile in 2009. The cases are being looked at as part of the public inquiry into C difficile deaths at the Vale of Leven hospital in Alexandria, Dunbartonshire...