Ten times as many elderly patients are killed by the hospital superbug Clostridium difficile in the UK than in any other country, a medical expert has claimed.
Around 6,500 people die of C. difficile in British hospitals every year – a rate of one an hour – and the infection kills four times more people than MRSA.
Professor Richard James, of Nottingham University’s Institute of Infections, Immunity and Inflammation. “If you look at the over-65s, we have more cases there, and therefore more deaths in that age-group than any country in the world by a factor of 10.”
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nhsiskillingus // May 1, 2008 at 7:24 pm
At least our service is “free at the point of service”. The NHS is an equal opportunity killer of patients. Unless of course you are rich, went to a BUPA hospital, and didn’t die. Thank God we don’t have a two tiered system.
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