Probe after RSH patients contract MRSA ‘superbug’
Wednesday 3rd November 2010, 9:23AM GMT.
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust is investigating how two patients caught the MRSA superbug – the first cases for more than eight months.
They occurred in “quick succession” about a week ago at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.
Trust spokesman, Adrian Osborne, said tests had shown the patients had contracted MRSA bacteraemia (bloodstream infection) while in hospital.
The trust has been set the tough target of having no more than six cases, for which it is responsible, over the year from last April to the end of next March.
To help encourage staff to follow infection control measures, a clock on the organisation’s intranet system measures the days, hours and minutes since an MRSA case was last reported.
“We want to see the days ticking up again,” said Mr Osborne. “We went more than eight months without a case and this gives us something to strive for.”
A performance report being presented to the trust board tomorrow says there is ongoing work to prevent MRSA such as screening patients on admission.
An electronic tool has also just been introduced for monitoring inflammation around intravenous “devices”.
The report reveals that the trust is also well on course to meet its Clostridium Difficile infection target of having had no more than 166 cases, for which it is responsible, by the end of next March.
At the end of September the figure was 34, with just three cases recorded that month.
By Health Correspondent Dave Morris
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