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C Difficile and Complexity
relevant categoriesYesterday the Healthcare Commission, the major inspectorate of the NHS came out with a report on the C difficile epidemic at Stoke Madeville Hospital. The report castigates the management of the hospital for focusing only on meeting government targets and losing sight of its responsibilities for infection control.
The Chief Executive of the period was fired and a new acting Chief Executive has responded to the Commission report by agreeing with its conclusions and promising to collaborate with the commission to make sure that such breaches no longer occur.
What is interesting to me is that the commission actually does recognise that the centre has put extreme pressure on individual organizations to meet government targets and that this resulted in reducing the priority given to infection control.