Another tidbit in from England:
HEALTH * 5,000 die from hospital bugs Five thousand patients die every year from infections picked up in hospitals in a scandal that is costing the NHS an annual £1 billion. The scale of the threat lurking on the wards was revealed as appalled MPs on a Parliamentary spending watchdog demanded that the service "get a grip" on the crisis. An estimated 100,000 hospital patients - one in ten - fall victim to infections every year, mostly from drug-resistant "superbugs". Source: News wires Useful links: http://www.express.co.uk Regards: Robert Bartell
