A row between the Department of Health and the NHS standards watchdog is threatening to undermine the government's drive to combat hospital superbugs, the Guardian has learned. The dispute flared last week after the department told a journalist that Alan Johnson, the health secretary, was angry with the Healthcare Commission, the body that inspects standards of hygiene and infection control in hospitals across England. The commission had found management failings at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS trust in Kent that contributed to the deaths of 90 patients during two outbreaks of the superbug Clostridium difficile.
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