Hospital Fined After Health Worker Infected With Hepatitis C, UK

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Hospital Fined After Health Worker Infected With Hepatitis C, UK

A healthcare worker at a Worcestershire hospital contracted the Hepatitis C virus after injuring herself on a needle used to take blood from an infected patient.During the Health and Safe

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Hospital Fined After Health Worker Infected With Hepatitis C, UK - QualityPoint Technologies

qualitypointtech.net — “A healthcare worker at a Worcestershire hospital contracted the Hepatitis C virus after injuring herself on a needle used to take blood from an infected patient. During the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecution of Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust over the February 2007 incident, City Magistrates heard the worker, who had been training at the Trust for three weeks, was instructed to take blood from a patient known to be infected with the virus...” View full resource at qualitypointtech.net