Superbug system is too little too late

Link: Evening News 24 - Superbug system is too little too late.

Health campaigners have criticised the NHS for introducing a new web-based system to improve monitoring of superbugs after 18 people died from Clostridium difficile in one outbreak in the county. The system, which will be rolled out this month, will enable hospital and primary care trusts to identify and focus on infection hotspots in the future. However, the move is being seen as too little too late and health campaigners have asked why the government waited until 18 people died from the bug at the James Paget Hospital in Gorleston to implement new infection control measures. Norwich North MP Ian Gibson said: “We have all this new technology, but it is not tried and tested until we hit an emergency situation like the one at the James Paget.