I hate this, if the NHS had more money to employ extra staff and better epuiptment rather than having to spend it on the legal costs etc this kind of thing incurs then they might be able to make improvements. Lets be fair she would have been ill without the operation anyway!

Jane, Birmingham,

It is about time someone took on the the powers that be over MRSA. People have died from this infection and very little has been done to combat this infection though a great deal of rhetoric has been spouted. Get back to the old fashioned cleaning regimes and I will bet that MRSA is greatly reduced. Having visited my grandchild in hospital I had to call for the manager of the cleaning staff, The trolley that the childs lunch plate was placed on was caked in old food, this was replaced and the manager looked at another childs trolley and said that wasnt very clean either, however that trolley wasnt replaced, probably because the childs parents werent there. During the same visit a foreign domestic brought a glass and placed it beside the water jug, I sent that back as it had lipstick on the glass, also a brass light switch was filthy with grime and blood was spatered down the wall above a waste bin. Not one member of the nursing staff or domestic staff used the handwashing gel.

Patricia Kenny, Braqdford, West Yorkshire

Trying saying that with the MRSA bug flailing around inside you making your last few years of life miserable.

At 71 I hope to be looking forward to my last years of activity, enjoying life and family, perhaps realising a few of my remaining dreams in life..

.. Not suffering from an infection caused by incompetence and lack of basic, essential facilities. 30,000 pounds is nothing in comparison to her trade off, and if it helps draw attention to this travesty, well, good on her.

blec29, Paris, France