Gordon Brown on hospital cleanliness

It would seem that Gordon Brown has moved on with his cleaning of hospitals, the same hospitals that he has been in charge of funding for the last 10 years.

"All patients entering NHS hospitals in England will be screened for MRSA and Clostridium difficile, the PM has said. Gordon Brown told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show that tackling hospital-acquired infections was an "absolute priority". A programme of deep cleaning hospitals had begun and would continue across the country in the coming months, he said."

The deep cleaning programnme has started has it, what hospitals have been deep cleaned so far?


"Mr Brown said the government was setting aside £50m to pay for the deep-clean programme. It had doubled the number of matrons on NHS wards, and introduced stiffer penalties for hospitals where cleaning is not done properly, he added."

I don't know but I just don't believe either of those statistics, I wonder why? Is this £50m new money or coming from existing budgets? If it is from existing budgets then which ones and what will be unfunded as a result? Could it be that Gordon Brown has fiddled so many figures and double or treble announced so many increases in funding over the last 10 years that his credibility is at approximately zero. The man is a fraud and thankfully the rest of the country is finally catching up with those of us who worked this out years ago.

Someone who has been telling us this for longer than most isGuido Fawkes who writes today that "However much Brown smiles manically in front of the cameras, the public believe he is a grumpy, defensive, brooding control freak - because after ten years we know the truth. You can't fool all of the people for such a long time. Recognition of his mincing, finger-chewing, snot-eating, greasy haired, foul tempered nature and weird dark ways has broken out of the confines of the Westminster Village and is seeping into a wider popular consciousness."