{"id":196890,"date":"2025-10-13T10:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/196890\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T10:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:49:09","slug":"the-berkshire-hospital-washing-its-hands-of-sinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/196890\/","title":{"rendered":"The Berkshire hospital washing its hands of sinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Meda says: &#8220;If you want to  control these bugs it has to be in hospital settings, because waste water is a super reservoir for these superbugs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Changing practices that we are pioneering at Wexham Park could be one of the ways we start to win the battle against these bugs.&#8221;   <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hospital says its initial surveillance shows that removing sinks hasn&#8217;t compromised anyone&#8217;s safety, while it has started to reduce many types of hospital-acquired infections.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hospital bosses are so convinced that they&#8217;re onto something, they are now rolling out their new &#8220;water-safe&#8221; approach to other wards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And last week a medical team from Japan flew over to see what they could learn from Wexham&#8217;s project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While the government&#8217;s NHS Hospital programme, which is looking at how it can build more than 40 new hospitals over the next decade or so, is also showing an interest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Slough hospital&#8217;s microbiologists hope their work could act as a blueprint for the wider NHS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Meda says: &#8220;If you want to control these bugs it has to be in hospital settings, because&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-196890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}