Pat's Note: 

It is difficult to bring negligence claims against the hospitals for
the reasons stated, especially when the government witheld relevant
information from them (superbugs in pigs and pig farmers).

But the fact that MRSA and C.Diff may have been hidden up in British
pigs is entirely different. Well worth grouping togther and launching
a class action. 

If they were hidden up or if (as seems the only logical  alternative)
the pigs were never tested, then there is a clear case and
whistle-blowers will emerge.

The lawyers won't miss it.

The figures for the increase in C.Diff are simply horrifying.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/07/24/ymmrsa124.xml

...Failure to tackle the menace of MRSA and Clostridium difficile is
not only associated with more than 8,000 deaths a year in England and
Wales. Most victims survive - but only after prolonging their hospital
stay two-and-a-half times the scheduled period and gulping antibiotics
for weeks afterwards. C.-diff is the biggest, and growing, problem. In
the early 1990s, just over 1,000 patients a year fell victim. Today,
more than 1,000 are infected each week.

Currently, the chances of infection victims getting legal redress are
slim. But this could change.

Peter Walsh, chief executive of Action Against Medical Accidents,
said: "It's notoriously difficult to bring a claim because the
hospital will always say 'prove to us you didn't have the infection in
the first place."

That may change as some NHS hospitals now test patients for infection
as soon as they are admitted to hospital. However, that this is not
easy with emergency admissions. But routine checking pre-admission is
quite feasible with planned admissions, as private hospitals routinely
demonstrate with minimal infection cases.

Mr Walsh added: "Despite the problem of proving negligence, there have
been some successful cases, but most have been achieved under health
and safety rules."

The plaintiff needed a witness who could show that a nurse or medic
was re-using a syringe, moved between patients with open wounds
without washing and swabbing, or blatantly disregarded hygiene
protocols.....

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Regards
Pat Gardiner
Release the results of testing British pigs for MRSA and C.Diff now!
www.go-self-sufficient.com