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MRSA Action UK
As reductions in MRSA and Clostridium difficile plateau nationally, new measures to target poor performance will be brought in, says MRSA Action UK

MRSA Action UK’s analysis of figures from the Health Protection Agency show that the measures that have been so successful in reducing the numbers of infections reported to the Health Protection Agency are working. However there are still some hospitals that are no longer seeing the reductions that the best performing hospitals are. Under a new regime hospitals where an MRSA bloodstream infection have occurred will be required to undertake a post infection review to see where things went wrong. There may be financial penalties incurred if the infection was avoidable.