On Monday the chairman of Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Hospital Trust in Kent resigned after a government watchdog criticised appalling hygiene that contributed to outbreaks of a superbug that killed about 90 patients.
Today the same watchdog, the Healthcare Commission, said one in four acute and specialist hospitals in England and Wales did not comply with at least one of the government’s three standards on infection control.
It said it did not believe the hospitals were unsafe. But the watchdog’s chief executive, Anna Walker, acknowledged the public’s concern.
“We recognise that patients are genuinely frightened of catching a superbug in hospital,” she said.
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