Monday, 18 June 2007, 12:39 GMT 13:39 UK
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
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