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Jul 2 2008
A HAND washing scheme to improve hygiene in Liverpool’s doctors’ surgeries and healthcare centres has been launched....
Apr 25 2008
MANY hospital trusts in Merseyside are still failing to reduce superbug infections, according to latest figures....
Apr 22 2008
A MERSEYSIDE hospital trust is among nine in England that has failed to complete its deep clean process to combat superbugs like MRSA, according to a statement from the health secretary....
Jan 30 2008
CASES of deadly superbug MRSA at Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Hospitals are on the rise, latest figures reveal....
Jan 22 2008
THE fight against hospital superbugs MRSA and Clostridium difficile could earn one Liverpool firm millions of pounds....
Nov 12 2007
MERSEYSIDE’S largest hospitals are failing to meet government targets for reducing MRSA – with some recording twice as many cases as ministers expected them to....
Nov 12 2007
THE potentially lethal MRSA bug has become one of the biggest crises to affect the health service, mainly because it has developed a resistance to certain antibiotics and is therefore much more difficult to treat....
Nov 6 2007
LIVERPOOL Women’s Hospital has increased patient checks for MRSA and set up a helpline for worried parents after the killer superbug was found on four babies....
Nov 5 2007
LIVERPOOL Women’s hospital was put on MRSA alert after the killer superbug was found on four babies....
Nov 2 2007
A YOUNG woman who spent six weeks unconscious and suffered kidney failure after a doctor failed to spot she had appendicitis has survived major surgery, only to be told she has MRSA....