Hospital beats targets for bug
Saturday, August 02, 2008, 07:30
Latest figures from Derbyshire County Primary Care Trust, which refers patients to the hospital, show that there were no new cases of the infection in May, against a target of no more than three.
In April the trust recorded two cases of the bug, which causes vomiting, against a target of no more than two.
Burton Hospitals NHS Trust must have no more than 33 cases of C Diff during the financial year 2008-09, which runs from April to March next year, in order to hit Government targets.
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