Peterborough rise up low MRSA league

Link: Peterborough Today

     A "SEARCH and destroy" policy against superbug MRSA has seen hospitals in the region climb up the national league table. The rates of the potentially fatal infection have dropped at Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals Foundation Trust's hospitals – Edith Cavell, Peterborough District and Stamford hospitals – placing it joint third in a table of the best-performing hospitals in the country. New figures released by the Department of Health show that just four cases of the bacterial infection were diagnosed between April and September last year in the three hospitals – compared with 69 at the worst performing hospital in Brighton.