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Politician wants to fine hospitals if patients contract infections during treatments

category north carolina | health care | news report author Sunday January 06, 2008 17:54author by Infection Protection - Infection Protection Report this post to the editors

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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