Proceeding contribution from Jim Devine (Labour) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 23 October 2007. It occurred during Adjournment debate on Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

I, too, am a former nurse, and I remember the smell of cleanliness in hospitals. Is the Minister aware that, in 1982, 170,520 ancillary staff worked in NHS hospitals in England, but, by 1995, that number had fallen to 66,760? At the same time, there was a corresponding increase in MRSA and other infections that have been highlighted. Does she agree that it is time that we got back to the domestic levels of cleanliness in hospitals that we had in 1982, prior to compulsory competitive tendering?

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Type: Proceeding contribution
Reference: 465 c50WH
Session: 2006-07
Chamber / Committee: Westminster Hall
Subjects: Hospitals Diseases Patients NHS trusts Monitoring Nurses MRSA Cleaning services Clostridium Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
Link: View this Proceeding contribution on www.publications.parliament.uk

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

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