Well I have an NPSA "Now wash your hands" mug on my desk so I know the score. Samuel Goldwyn: "A hospital is no place to be sick" And since you mentioned the election I'm gonna get on the political bandwagon. Why on earth do the Conservatives think that giving Matron MORE powers will clean wards? Do they expect Matron to get on their knees and scrub the floors? Or maybe shout at the cleaning staff who are employed on minimum wage through an unpractical PPP that THEY introduced and forced most hospitals to take up? Also most Matrons at Anytown NHS Trust spend most of their time in meetings discussing strategies or defending little sub-contient nurses from verbal abuse from patients families - when are they going to have time to get the Mr Muscle out? You try writing that on one of the posters. However they have made it nice and easy to graffiti the "It isn't racist to oppose imigration". If I had a pound for every one of those I had seen with "Yes it is!" scrawled on - I'd be a rich man. Anyway, sorry Tom for using your comments box as a political soap-box but without my blog I don't have anywhere to rant.