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More can be done over hospital bugs

Updated on 10 November 2009

Source PA News

The Government has "further" to go in its efforts to combat hospital bugs, the Health Secretary has said.

Andy Burnham said he would give "careful consideration" to an MPs' report which said the Government had no idea how many people are dying from hospital bugs other than MRSA and C diff.

But he warned against introducing "cumbersome systems of measuring data" to track the rise of infections.

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