'My wife is pregnant but she won't go to germ hospital

Link: 'My wife is pregnant but she won't go there' - Times Online.

Patients and visitors at Ealing Hospital, West London, spoke yesterday of the hospital’s “dirty, ghastly” reputation, which contributed to it achieving the worst score for overall care in the hospital league tables. Those who had received treatment yesterday could not fault the care they received from doctors and nurses. But most patients expressed no surprise that it rated among the worst-performing trusts on more than half of the issues in the Healthcare Commission’s national inpatient survey. Many said they would not wish friends or relatives to be treated at the 358-bed district hospital, which covers a catchment area of 300,000 patients from the middle-class suburbs of Ealing Broadway to the large South Asian population of Southall.