[Margaret Pilkington]

MRSA has always been about.......in my day it was called Multi-Resistant Staph Aureus......and if you worked on a surgical ward you could be sure that if there was rise in the number of infections, you would be required to have nasal swabs done.....if they came back positive you were sent off duty until they were negative.

There is far more openness in the NHS now which is why we hear about rates of MRSA.