Measures designed to speed patients through casualty departments or off waiting lists were limiting the amount of time hospitals had to clean, claims a BMA report.
Much trumpeted short -term moves, such as the deep clean of every hospital and bare-below-the-elbow staff uniforms would work only as part of a long-term culture change within the NHS. The BMA’s science committee also called for alcohol hand rub gels to be placed everywhere “where it is sensible and feasible” in hospitals and for greater numbers of “hands free” taps to help limit the spread of infection.
Official figures show that one in 18 hospital trusts is still failing to meet infection control standards and have been threatened with fines and closures by the Care Quality Commission, if they do not improve.
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