......where a sizeable portion of NHS staff are barely speaking English or are young and reckless, is it so hard to believe that a mistake can be made by someone in the handling of infected bedsheets or such?
What an complete load of Daily Mail-esque tosh. And your professional knowledge of this area would be?
I work in one of the largest hospital trusts in the country in what is arguably one of the most ethnically diverse cities (Leicester) and don't recognise anything like "
a sizeable portion of NHS staff are barely speaking English".
And who are these "
young and reckless" staff you speak of? I know very few who'd anywhere approach being 'reckless',although many are young. The staff who work on IDU are consummate professionals (even the younger ones) and deal with a range of infectious diseases day in, day out.