MY WIFE is in hospital at the moment and seems to be recovering well.

But every time you open a newspaper all you see are horror stories of people in hospital getting an infection just when they seem to be better.

I wanted to make sure this didn’t happen to my wife.

There are simple things we can do. The most important thing is keeping clean.

I wash my hands when I visit and I also ask nurses to wash their hands.

This won’t work against superbugs, but the website patientpak.com has really good advice and products for killing superbugs.

No matter how clean the hospitals are, we will never get rid of infections if we don’t help patients and the people who visit them to keep clean.

PHILIP JAMES

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