According to The Times, more than a 1/3 of all hospitals and NHS Trusts are unable to provide their staff with hot water, soap, alcohol rubs and other basic hygiene requirements whenever they need them, according to a Health Care Commission survey. The survey involved more than 200,000 staff, even though the Government have used doctors as a scapegoat for their failure in preventing MRSA and other hospital acquired infections. It would appear that the hospitals are at fault for not providing the basic hygiene requirements. The Government may have made preventing hospital-acquired infect a key priority, they have not backed it up by delivering the goods to do so.

More than 1/3 of hospitals fail to provide basic hygiene