Cleaner hospitals require hospital cleaners

The Conservatives’ focus on hospital ‘super bugs’ betrays the lack of political space between the two major parties on the future of the health service (see this earlier post). But this doesn’t mean that dirty wards are not a genuine issue. For a good analysis of the flaws in the current ‘contract culture’ and how it has affected cleanliness, look no further than Unison’s recent report on Hospital Contract Cleaning and Infection Control.  OR

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