[Sephiroth]

My former brother-in-law has just died in hospital from CV -contracted there. He was taken in for a gall bladder operation and duly contracted CV.

That's terrible. In my day (when Emergency Ward 10 was on TV), every hospital had a ruthless matron. My current mother-in-law (dcd,) has confirmed that the reason that typhus etc didn't run rife in hospitals back then was a rigorous cleaning regime including the use of carbolic to clean bedframes and so on. Clearly CV is rife on hospital services and the pontifications of the NHS Chief Executive are worthless unless he gets the hospital sanitation regime under control.