Link: Bexley Express.
Old Bexley and Sidcup MP Derek Conway blasted Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt after she announced plans to prosecute hospital chiefs who fail to keep their wards clean on Tuesday.
The Conservative MP branded Ms Hewitt a ‘patronising school mum type’ after she unveiled plans that could see chief executives face charges of corporate manslaughter if a patient dies of the MRSA bug.
The proposals mean hospital chiefs could face fines or prison sentences if their negligence leads to death, disability or illness.
Mr Conway claimed the plans use the wrong methods to get rid of the lethal superbug in hospitals.
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If hospital chief’s are held responsible for any death’s in thier hospital it is only justice, they are responsible for the people employed to clean the wards if the cleaner’s are not doing thier job they should be fired. so the onus is on the hospital chief.