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Oxoid Infection Control Team of the Year Awards 2006/2007 Winners Announced

Oxoid, a world leader in microbiology, is pleased to announce the winners of the 2006/2007 Oxoid Infection Control Team of the Year Awards: 1st Prize: Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust, UK 2nd Prize: Cho Ray Hospital, Vietnam Joint 3rd Prize: Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK and Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Nigeria. 1st: Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust, UK The judges were unanimous in their decision to award t... More

More action to tackle C.Difficile as MRSA numbers continue to fall

The Government's Chief Nursing Officer today welcomed a further reduction in MRSA bloodstream infections and announced the latest in a raft of measures to drive down rates of C.difficile in hospitals. Latest statistics from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) show a decrease of 6.7% in MRSA bacteraemia on the last published quarterly data, while C difficile infections for 2006 were 7.6% higher than 2005, a smaller increase than in the previou... More