I had to scrub filthy wards, says daughter in MRSA case

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04 10 08 - 14:16 When David Cameron addressed his party's conference this week, he read a letter from a constituent whose wife had died after contracting MRSA in an NHS hospital.

The Tory leader told how John Woods had compared his wife Elizabeth's treatment to 'something out of a 17th century asylum' but said he could not read out any more because the details of the case were 'so dreadful and so degrading'.

Today, the Daily Mail can reveal that horror included Mrs Woods's daughter having to scrub a ward - housed in a Portakabin - with a floor black with dirt; clean blinds and window sills which were filthy with dust and dirt, and routinely ask doctors and other professionals to wash their hands.
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And what that last sentence tells us is that the problem is not merely lack of money - because money isn't stopping doctors washing their hands. This is a culture of not giving a damn, and another sign of the descent into idiocracy.