Politician wants to fine hospitals if patients contract infections during treatments

by Infection Protection Monday, Jan. 07, 2008 at 1:58 AM

A leading U.K. politician wants the government to fine hospitals for each patient who contracts an infection during their stay.

A leading U.K. politician wants the government to fine hospitals for each patient who contracts an infection during their stay. In a speech, David Cameron, a member of Parliament, said English hospitals should lose part of their yearly government payment for each patient if that person contracted MRSA, or Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or another infection, Clostridium difficile, according to a report by the BBC.

By Gene Koprowski, Editor-in-Chief

Original: Politician wants to fine hospitals if patients contract infections during treatments