Andrew wrote:

On 12/02/2018 23:43, Roger Hayter wrote:
Wages have fallen and numbers have
reduced following privatisation (hence MRSA etc in our hospitals).

There you go again.

WHAT PRIVATISATION ?.


MRSA got out of hand because of ONE single important factor.

When Nulabia got into power they were obsessed with reducing
waiting lists and jammed so many more beds onto each ward that
it allowed MRSA and C Diff to take a hold.

If you said throughput, occupancy and transfers all increased you might
have a point.

But increasing total beds (they were greatly decreased) or putting more
beds on wards (some time in the 90s this practice totally ceased and
beds down the middle of Nighingale wards were forbidden) is simply
nonsense.







It's basic microbiology and cross infection control, something that
I know more about that you do. Stop posting utter crap.

Basic microbiology would tell you that if you privatise the cleaning
services, take control out of the hands of ward sisters and employ
managers loyal to the cleaning contractor, and stick to a jobsworth
defined cleaning schedule regardless of what actually needs doing then
you will have filthy conditions much of the time.

The more intensive use you refer to (inaccurately) above only makes this
worse.


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Roger Hayter