Link: BBC NEWS | UK | England | Bradford | Hospitals clean-up to cost £3.7m.
A hospital trust is spending millions of pounds tackling superbugs to avoid the possibility of stiff fines.
Bradford’s Royal Infirmary and St Luke’s hospital in the city are having £3.7m pumped into cleaning measures and other initiatives to meet targets.
Both hospitals have embarked on a "massive programme" of cleaning and screening to contain the MRSA and Clostridium difficile (C. diff) bugs.
The annual targets are set by Bradford and Airedale Primary Care Trust.
National targets were set in 2004 by the then Health Secretary John Reid to halve the number of cases of the superbug infections by March 2008.
