C. Diff raises its head in a big way.

With the chairman of the crisis-hit Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, James Lee, resigning hot on the heals of the trusts Rose Gibb it is emerging that the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust was not the only Trust with C. Diff problems!

"We must all shoulder our share of the blame. But I hope the House will recognise the awful failures in Maidstone and Tunbridge are entirely unrepresentative of the standards of care that patients and the public rightly expect and is delivered across the country, day after day."

Alan Johnson, UK Health Secretary

In an article carried in last Sundays News of the world it listed another twenty five NHS, the article (based on information obtained under the Freedom of Information Act) also contained a full list of all report cases of C. Diff across the whole of the UK.

We intend to pull together this information along with other data that we have obtained and create another table entry on the NHS Watch web site the info.

In the meantime here is the Top Twenty Five list...
(Infections per 1,000 bed days for patients 65 and over - source News of the World)

1. Kettering General Hospital (6.78)
2. Hereford Hospitals (5.22)
3. University Hospitals North Staffordshire (5.18)
4. University Hospital Leicester (5.06)
5. Frimley Park Hospital (4.91)
6. Barnsley Hospital (4.81)
7. Royal Surrey County Hospital (4.48)
8. George Eliot Hospital (4.47)
9. Milton Keynes General Hospital (4.41)
10. Weston Area Health (4.15)
11=. Luton and Dunstable Hospital (4.02)
11=. Mid Staffordshire General Hospitals (4.02)
13. Bedford Hospital (4.01)
14. West Dorset General Hospitals (3.99)
15. Gloucestershire Hospitals (3.91)
16. Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals (3.85)
17. West Hertfordshire Hospital (3.83)
18. South Devon Healthcare (3.76)
19. Chesterfield Royal Hospital (3.74)
20. Royal West Sussex (3.70)
21. Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Hospital (3.69)
22. Burton Hospitals (3.62)
23. North Bristol (3.58)
24. University Hospital Birmingham (3.56)
25. Northampton General Hospital (3.54)

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