Superbug deaths 'linked to NHS cash crisis'

More hospital patients die in the South of England after being infected with England's deadliest superbugs than any other area of the country, the first mortality map reveals. NHS services threatened by hospital debts The number of death certificates which state the patient had MRSA or Clostridium Difficile is highest in the South East and South West, with the West Midlands and London not far behind.

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