DOCTORS at Worcestershire's hospitals are to be allowed to keep wearing ties, despite them being banned in hospitals elsewhere in an effort to contain the spread of superbug MRSA.
Hospital staff at Brighton and Sussex University Hospital NHS Trust have been banned from wearing ties, jewellery or watches.
However, a spokesman for Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust said no such ban would be implemented in Worcestershire Royal Hospital, Kidderminster Hospital or the Alexandra in Redditch.
The Worcester News reported last week how staff at the three hospitals are set to have compulsory training in infection control from April 2007 after there were 30 MRSA cases since April 2006 - six more than the Trust's target for the entire year.
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