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Cameron touts 'superbug' fines for hospitals
By Rich Bowden, M&C Staff Writer Jan 2, 2008, 8:13 GMT
David Cameron, leader of the British Conservative party gives a speech at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) conference in London, Britain 27 November 2007. EPA/ANDY RAIN
(M&C) - Hospitals will receive a fine for every patient in their care who catches a superbug under a new proposal to be revealed by Tory leader David Cameron.
Mr Cameron will say NHS hospitals will not receive their full fee for patient care should they be struck with a healthcare-related illness.
"It should be a basic rule of social policy that you don't pay for what you don't want more of," he will say in a speech in Manchester.
"Money should attend success, not failure. So, for instance, I don't think hospitals should be paid - or paid in full - for a treatment which leaves the patient with a hospital-acquired infection like MRSA."
The government has also recently released its own plans for a regulator to have the power to fine hospitals should patients contract "superbug" viruses such as MRSA and Clostridium difficile.
Mr Cameron will deliver his speech during a two-day tour of Yorkshire.
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