01/10/2010: MRSA Action UK: World MRSA Day
Friday, 1 October 2010
12:00 AM
Kick-off Event - October 1st at Loyola University Chicago, Illinois - 10:00am - Press Conference, 10:30am - Main Event, this will be broadcast live on 3M's website and at www.worldmrsaday.org
Here in the UK Kings College Hospital are holding an event on Friday 1st October 2010 and have invited MRSA Action UK to participate following on from the Infection Control Study Day held in April. Every day is infection awareness day, but October 2 has been chosen to think about MRSA as this was the day it was discovered by Professor Patricia Jevons under a microscope at Colindale Laboratories, London in 1961. There will be events taking place throughout October to recognise the significance of the month. Please get in touch if you want to encourage your local hospital, workplace, school or community group to hold an awareness day or remembrance event at info@mrsaactionuk.net
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According to new official figures the rates of the antibiotic-resistant MRSA infection in England are at their lowest level since mandatory records began in 2001.
The Conservatives have criticised the Government's policies on health for the recent rise in MRSA cases in hospitals.
The Conservative Party leader has claimed that Government policies have actually made the problems of MRSA in the UK worse.
A British researcher has developed a new test that should help doctors identify the presence of the MRSA "superbug" more quickly.
Michael Howard has said that the Conservatives would introduce a state-of-the-art testing system to quickly identify patients infected with MRSA is they win the general election.
NHS managers have accused Michael Howard of publishing exaggerated statistics about the MRSA superbug.
Deaths resulting from the MRSA superbug have doubled over the past four years, new figures have revealed.
Cases of the "superbug" in under-15s rose from just 4 in 1990 to 77 in 2001.
Health Secretary John Reid has pledged to halve MRSA bloodstream infections by 2008.
The Conservative's NHS policies would tackle the problem of the superbug MRSA, according to its party's leader.
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