MRSA: If you have concerns over a doctors integrity over MRSA and found the complaints procedure against that doctor was not carried out properly, you can apply to post a message in this section stating what your grievance is.

To apply to post your complaint: Email: info@nameandshamescotland.co.uk

Complaints against Doctors should be made first to your Local Health Board, then if you are not happy with their response, you can forward your complaint to the General Medical Council GMC or to the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman SPSO. You can also apply for a copy of your medical records through the Freedom of Information Act.

To Nicola Sturgeon MSP:
I have had two elderly relations enter Ayrshire hospitals in the past couple of years. Neither had life threatening illnesses, yet both died after contracting MRSA. None of their death certificates mentioned MRSA.

One contracted MRSA in Crosshouse Hospital and the other in Ayr Hospital, Station 6. I have realised from this, that elderly people that contract MRSA in hospitals have a greatly reduced chance of ever leaving hospital alive.

I got the impression, medical people looked at elderly people with MRSA as things to be disposed of as soon as possible, to stop the spread of infection and having them using up quarantine rooms, rooms normally used for terminally ill patients.

Nicola Sturgeon has stated on TV she is trying to introduce measures to reduce MRSA in hospitals and was supposed to be going to release information on how many cases of MRSA each year, there is in each Scottish Hospital.

This would encourage hospitals to clean up their act and show the hospitals that know what they are doing.

Hospitals with high numbers of MRSA cases could then visit hospitals with low numbers to find out how they manage to avoid MRSA.

Visitors would then know what hospitals were not containing MRSA. They would then be more aware of cleanliness in those hospitals and complain about anything they found was not acceptable.

Politicians and medical people, withholding information on what hospitals are killing many Scottish people unnecessarily, are accessories to mass murder. There is no other way to look at these people.

They are withholding evidence that could save many hundreds of lives.

Nicola Sturgeon MSP Reply:
Nicola Sturgeon, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, has portfolio responsibility for Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI) and has asked me, as a member of the HAI Policy Unit, to reply on her behalf.

NHS Boards are responsible for producing data by hospital, and are required by the Scottish Government to do so using an HAI Reporting template. The template is presented and discussed at NHS Board meetings. Weblinks to all of the reporting templates can be found on the Scottish Government’s HAI Task Force website at www.scotland.gov.uk/haitaskforce.

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