Struggling trusts

A report has found one in four local NHS organisations in England is failing to comply with basic hygiene standards.

The Healthcare Commission found 99 of 394 healthcare trusts admitted to failing to have adequate measures in place.

Four trusts reported failing to meet any of the three core standards for hygiene:

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust

Sheffield Primary Care Trust

Sutton and Merton Primary Care Trust

Wiltshire Primary Care Trust

Seventeen more trusts reported falling down in two out of three hygiene standards:

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Cambridgeshire Primary Care Trust

Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust

East Riding of Yorkshire Primary Care Trust

Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Norfolk Primary Care Trust

North Bristol NHS Trust

North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust

Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

South Warwickshire General Hospitals NHS Trust

South West Essex Primary Care Trust

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

Wandsworth Primary Care Trust

Westminster Primary Care Trust

Whittington Hospital NHS Trust

Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust