{"id":581378,"date":"2026-05-13T08:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/581378\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T08:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:36:08","slug":"too-many-bacterial-infections-in-shropshire-hospitals-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/581378\/","title":{"rendered":"Too many bacterial infections in Shropshire hospitals &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The board will be told that there was progress in potentially using the antibiotic Fidaxomicin as first-line treatment of C. diff, which would reduce the risk of onward transmission to others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">SaTH said 33 cases of C. diff were likely to have been caused by inappropriately prescribed antibiotics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An action plan is also being drawn up to reduce MRSA, MSSA, E.coli, pseudomonas and klebsiella.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are also plans in development for a deep clean in 2026-27.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The report also investigates Covid and flu incidents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There was one confirmed case of measles at the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford in January 2026, but it involved a child who was too young to be vaccinated, it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">No further cases were identified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added that an issue with staff immunity data was also identified and work was in progress to &#8220;allow controlled access of immunity data.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The board will be told that there was progress in potentially using the antibiotic Fidaxomicin as first-line treatment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-581378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581378","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=581378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}