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... article MRSA - 2005 - Information has just emerged from the public service union, UNISON, that whilst hospital patient numbers have increased in the last 20 years, cleaning operative numbers have halved. In 1984, there were more than 100,000 cleaners working in the NHS. Today there is under 55,000. Can it be the lack of finance? At the present rate, the outlay for the running of the NHS, by the year 2010, it will cost upwards of £500,000,000 each and every day. Are these cuts in cleaners causing the increase of infection. Even though many of us carry the MRSA bacteria without effecting us, it much easier for people who are already unwell to be effected worse by the bacteria causing serious illness and in some cases death. Without proper cleaning regimes the bacteria can easily be passed by patient to patient by health care workers cross contaminating from patient to patient, ...