“While infection rates at these trusts are not necessarily higher they can do more to strengthen their approaches to infection control and help prevent outbreak,” CQC chairman Barbara Young said.

 

She further added that the group will continue to monitor these trusts throughout the year and will not hesitate to use the enforcement powers they have to protect patients’ safety where needed.

 

The names included on the list of the CQC are as follows: Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health, Barts and the London, Leeds Teaching Hospitals, Kettering General North Bristol, Plymouth Hospitals, South West London and St George’s Mental Health, United Lincolnshire Hospitals, Alder Hey, Barking, Havering and Redbridge, Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust, Herefordshire PCT, Isle of Wight, Leeds Partnerships Mental Health, Lewisham PCT, Manchester PCT, Medway, Royal Surrey, Somerset PCT, West Sussex PCT, Yorkshire Ambulance.

 

These trusts were among the 388 registered by the CQC, which began work this week after being set up by the government to tackle superbugs and deal with dirty hospital wards.