Vince Cable

The latest statistics on MRSA show that there has been a big improvement in local hospitals - with Kingston having no cases in the last 3 months - with a halving of new cases across the country.

Vincent Cable MP said: "I first raised the issue of MRSA in Parliament ten years ago when I became an MP and there was a state of total denial that there was a problem. Gradually there has been a recognition that there is a problem of hospital infections and cleanliness is improving considerably. Local hospitals are not yet the paragons of cleanliness we have in the Royal Brompton and Royal Marsden specialist hospitals but Kingston has improved remarkably and both our district hospitals are improving and better than some of the London hospitals."