Politician wants to fine hospitals if patients contract infections during treatments
by Infection Protection
Sunday, Jan. 06, 2008 at 2:54 PM
A leading U.K. politician wants the government to fine hospitals for each patient who contracts an infection during their stay.
A leading U.K. politician wants the government to fine hospitals for each patient who contracts an infection during their stay. In a speech, David Cameron, a member of Parliament, said English hospitals should lose part of their yearly government payment for each patient if that person contracted MRSA, or Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or another infection, Clostridium difficile, according to a report by the BBC.
By Gene Koprowski, Editor-in-Chief
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