Red tape preventing Conquest from cutting hospital bugs - Hastings Today - Back to Home Page extract-
A recent study in the medical publication The Lancet showed 40 per cent of C diff infections are spread by hospital bed linen and gowns worn by patients.
Scientists have proved that standard laundry systems do not kill C diff and that it can be returned to hospital beds on apparently bug free sheets and blankets.
There is a laundry system which kills C Diff - it is called Otex, and kills the bug with ozone
But guidelines from the Department of Health, which are based on a piece of legislation from 1969, means the laundry system, called Otex, can only be used on mops and not sheets or other bed linen.
OTEX - Validated Ozone Disinfection
Beaurocracy dictates that higher temperatures than those acheived by the Otex system must be used on hospital linen----- so they can only kill C Diff on mops
