Harney welcomes plan to identify MRSA blackspots
Friday, 22 February 2008
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The Health Minister is welcoming the news that hospitals plagued with MRSA are to be named and shamed.
Currently, only the number of infections are disclosed and not the locations.
From April, the Health Protection Surveillance Centre will reveal infection rates in individual hospitals.
The details will be available to the public on the internet on a quarterly basis.
Minister Mary Harney says the development is part of a much-needed plan to reduce MRSA infections by around a third by the end of 2010.
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