GORDON Brown has stated that over the next year for the first time, every hospital will receive a deep clean, to return our hospitals to the state they were in when they were built brand new.

Here in Blackburn we have a brand new hospital that has problems with MRSA so what's going on? Doctors, nurses, cleaners and visitors have to be more diligent in their personal hygiene and cleaning - lives depend on it.

H HAMER, Lowther Place, Blackburn.