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Hospital Trusts (Essex)

I hear what the hon. Gentleman says. I have not visited that hospital recently, but I am confident that, as happens in many other hospital trusts now, alcohol gels and other products will be freely available in the hospital environment for people to use to bear down on rates of infection. It is also important to say that rates of infection have decreased significantly right across the national health service, in respect of not only MRSA, but clostridium difficile. He is right to say, again, that there can be no complacency on this issue, and I am sure that the leadership at the trust will have heard his comments today.