MRSA Notes

Our friend Bev Hurst, from MRSAActionUK is featured in the Manchester Online Newspaper:
Health bosses ‘too busy’ to investigate mum’s MRSA death

THE daughter of an MRSA victim has been told a health watchdog is too busy to review the case. Bev Hurst, 48, is furious that after 18 months trying to find out how her mother Margaret Rowley contracted the deadly bug at Bury’s Fairfield General she has now come up against a brick wall. She wrote to the Healthcare Commission two weeks ago asking them to start an independent review of her 70-year-old mother’s care and her death in June 2003. Mrs Hurst, a mum-of-two from Wigan, was shocked when they replied saying: “When a request for review is received our usual process would be for it to be allocated to a case manager. “As we have received considerably more new cases than we are currently able to allocate to case managers, there will, unfortunately, be a delay in progressing your case.”

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