Open AccessHealth care infections – an update
Author(s) -
Simon Edwards,
Daniel Webster
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
bulletin of the royal college of surgeons of england
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1478-7075
pISSN - 1473-6357
DOI - 10.1308/147363509x461461
Subject(s) - newspaper , government (linguistics) , medicine , health care , focus (optics) , optometry , public relations , political science , law , philosophy , linguistics , physics , optics
We have recently witnessed a rapid fall in the MRSA and C difficile rates that once dominated newspaper headlines and the government maintains unrelenting pressure on trusts to adhere to new regulations and standards of cleanliness. But are we losing sight of the broader picture? Is this focus on a few significant factors now preventing an understanding of what our true priorities should be?