As promised a new entry first thing this morning, well close to it, it's just gone 11. Anyway this mornings topic was inspired by a report i read in the Independant yesterday, about a new superbug in hospitals that people arn't really aware of. A serious enough article that raises many questions about how the NHS is run, and it was enough to make me paranoid about ever going into hospital on top of the more regular MRSA scares we hear about.

However the worst thing about it for me was that this superbug, Clostridium difficile, basicaly causes a bad case of diarhea! In some cases it can be fatal. Oh my giddy aunt the sheer indignity of it! Also, yeuch that really has to be a miserable way to go, an everyday case of diarhea is unpleasant enough.

I can't help but think given that both the instances of MRSA and Clostrium difficile have been on the rise from very low levels from about 1990(the earliest figures quoted in the article) that it may have something to do with the privatisation of the contracts to provide hospital cleaning services. Although eyebrows were also raised at a quote saying that, "alcohol hand gels on NHS wards for cleansing between patients was meant to be convnient and compensate for a lack of sink." A lack of sinks! doesn't really bode well does it?