UK superbug centre opens

Published: 8-Jan-2007


UK actress Leslie Ash, who almost died after contracting MSSA - a strain of MRSA - opened a new centre on 5 January dedicated to fighting superbugs.

The Centre for Healthcare Associated Infections at The University of Nottingham will bring together some of the country's leading experts to further our understanding of antibiotic resistant bacteria such as MRSA and Clostridium difficile, which kill thousands of people in the UK every year.

Ash, who will be patron of the new centre, said: “This centre will play an integral part in the fight against healthcare-acquired infections. And if it stops one person from going through what I and many thousands of others have been though then it will be very worthwhile.”

The National Audit Office now estimates that every year 5,000 people are dying in the UK from a hospital or healthcare-acquired infection. Around 10% of all surgery patients acquire a superbug infection and treating patients suffering from these illnesses costs the British National Health Service (NHS) an additional £1bn.

Professor Richard James, director of the new centre, said: “Quite frankly, the impending crisis on the horizon can be called the 'post-antibiotic apocalypse'.

The new centre will bring together researchers from nine different schools at The University of Nottingham, covering a wide range of disciplines, and Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.

Microbiologists will investigate how MRSA, Clostridium difficile and Pseudomonas aeruginosa attack the body and genetical analysis of Clostridium difficile will be undertaken.

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