Decision time for MRSA strategy

The news that Gardai in Waterford have sent a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions, arising from an investigation of a complaint by a local doctor whose husband died after contracting MRSA, apparently at the city’s regional hospital, is sure to raise questions about whether the MRSA risk management strategies go far enough. We may not know for some time whether the DPP will bring criminal charges in the case and, if he does, whether a successful prosecution will give momentum to the strategy, or force health authorities to develop a more ambitious one. The fact that a file…