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60% of NHS Trusts in England using MRSA online training course

The Training Foundation has announced that 312 NHS Trusts in England have now licensed access to its online training portal www.mrsa.no.com to provide staff with the 'MRSA – you can make a difference' training programme. The Training Foundation report that more than 30 NHS Trusts have joined the initiative in the last seven days.

This announcement coincided with last weeks report from the Office for National Statistics revealing that MRSA-related deaths continued to increase in 2003 in England and Wales, and have now officially doubled in four years.

'MRSA – you can make a difference' was launched in July 2004 and is being used in a variety of NHS organisations including Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), Acute Trusts, Ambulance Trusts, Care Trusts, and Mental Health Trusts.

Nick Mitchell, Chief Executive of The Training Foundation said, "We are very pleased that more than 60% of all NHS personnel can now benefit from our training programme, however, that still leaves staff in nearly 300 NHS Trusts who can not.

"We strongly encourage all Chief Executives in these Trusts to ensure their Trust’s participation in this inexpensive programme. It is much cheaper for the NHS to put a barrier at the top of the cliff, by effective staff training, than to keep on sending ambulances to the bottom after a serious event has occurred. According to the National Audit Office, treating MRSA is now costing the NHS more than £1b a year."

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For further information about MRSA – Making a Difference visit: www.mrsa.no.com

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