Doctors to consider scrubs to reduce infection
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《英国医生杂志》
Doctors' representatives have criticised the government for failing to act sufficiently swiftly to control the rise of hospital acquired infections in the United Kingdom. They called for new resources to tackle factors that they saw as contributing to the problem—in particular, high bed occupancy and the contracting-out of hospital cleaning services.
Representatives at the annual meeting of the BMA in Manchester this week also called for controls to be set for visitors to hospitals to help stem the spread of infections. They also agreed to consider the introduction of scrubs for all healthcare professionals and students working in hospitals.
Geoffrey Lewis, a member of BMA Council who proposed the motion on cleanliness in hospitals, told the conference that despite the government's pledge to halve the number of cases methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the next three years, the problem of hospital acquired infections was getting worse.
The incidence of MRSA in England and Wales has risen by 600% in the past 10 years, he told representatives. In 2003, there were 7647 cases of MRSA in England and Wales, a rise of 4% on the previous year, and 955 deaths. This compared with 481 deaths in 1999. Dr Lewis added that the UK had two of the most virulent strains of MRSA in existence.
He said that a second year medical student in the Midlands had recently reported that patients in the area were scared to go to hospital because they were concerned of what they could catch there.(Zosia Kmietowicz)
Representatives at the annual meeting of the BMA in Manchester this week also called for controls to be set for visitors to hospitals to help stem the spread of infections. They also agreed to consider the introduction of scrubs for all healthcare professionals and students working in hospitals.
Geoffrey Lewis, a member of BMA Council who proposed the motion on cleanliness in hospitals, told the conference that despite the government's pledge to halve the number of cases methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the next three years, the problem of hospital acquired infections was getting worse.
The incidence of MRSA in England and Wales has risen by 600% in the past 10 years, he told representatives. In 2003, there were 7647 cases of MRSA in England and Wales, a rise of 4% on the previous year, and 955 deaths. This compared with 481 deaths in 1999. Dr Lewis added that the UK had two of the most virulent strains of MRSA in existence.
He said that a second year medical student in the Midlands had recently reported that patients in the area were scared to go to hospital because they were concerned of what they could catch there.(Zosia Kmietowicz)