Wonder cream set for MRSA trial

Link: icCoventry

Clinical trials are set to begin on a barrier cream developed by a Nuneaton truck driver which could combat the hospital super-bug MRSA. Brian Bennett, aged 65, is celebrating after health secretary John Reid and the then Nuneaton MP Bill Olner helped to cut through red tape holding up widespread clinical trials in British hospitals. Mr Bennett, who lives in The Long Shoot, Nuneaton, came up with the wonder formula in an attempt to beat his wife Heather's dermatitis. He had been frustrated by delays to the testing process caused by bureaucracy but a meeting with John Reid and Bill Olner has moved things along. From April 30, the cream will be available in every Asda store in the country, and Mr Bennett will be at the Nuneaton store, with his wife, to meet people and demonstrate the product. He said: "With the help of Bill Olner and John Reid the walls have come down. All of a sudden the contracts that we have been waiting for for months have gone through and now we can get the clinical trials up and running."