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» Thursday, October 11, 2007

Health Care Commission Report on C Difficile

Put that an obsession with meeting Government targets contributed to the death of 90 people, the PMS said that Alan Johnson had made the case for the Government very clear this morning when he rejected that assertion. What has been seen is that some trusts have been successful in reducing their rates of infection significantly, so if this was a general problem, as has been suggested, then that would not explain why some trusts have been able to deal with this relatively successfully.

Put that this particular trust (Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust) had been obsessed with Government targets, the PMS said that Alan Johnson had dealt with these questions this morning; there were clearly specific issues relating to this specific trust that needed to be addressed. As far as lessons for the rest of the National Health Service, those would clearly be learnt as Alan Johnson said this morning.

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