Coventry Telegraph - News - North Warwickshire News - Coventry and Warwickshire hospitals to screen emergency patients for superbug.
COVENTRY and Warwickshire’s hospitals are stepping up their fight against MRSA by screening emergency patients for the superbug. Every patient who goes into hospital for a planned operation is already checked to make sure they are not carrying the bug on their skin. But now University Hospital, Coventry, Warwick and George Eliot hospitals are set to screen all patients who are admitted through A&E as well. The Department of Health wants all hospitals to start doing this by the end of the year, but our local hospitals have decided to roll out the scheme three months ahead of schedule. Jill Foster, chief nursing officer at University Hospital, said: “We know members of the public are rightly concerned about hospital infections and, although we have one of the lowest infection rates in the West Midlands, we are keen to reduce this even further.”
