Hospitals successful in bid for extra cash to fight superbugs

Ity is part of a national investment pledged by the Government to help NHS organisations introduce new ways of preventing and controlling the spread of infections such as MRSA and Clostridium difficile.

The bugs are more likely to affect people who are already unwell or have a weak immune system.

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the Royal Hallamshire, Northern General, Weston Park and Charles Clifford Dental and Jessop Wing hospitals, made a successful bid for funds.

Chief nurse Hilary Schofield said: “We are very pleased that our bid for extra funding was successful. We have an excellent track record for infection prevention and control with some of the lowest rates for MRSA and Clostridium difficile in the country.

“We are, however, always looking for new and better ways of tackling infection and this extra funding will help us to reduce the spread of infection even further.”

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the best performing acute teaching hospital for the prevention and control of MRSA, latest Government figures show.