HOSPITALS could face criminal proceedings for failing to protect patients from MRSA as anti-“superbug” activists step up their campaign with an international fact-finding mission.

A national database of MRSA infections should be established to determine the extent of the deadly superbug, it was claimed today.

A DOCTOR who has succeeded in reducing the rate of MRSA bloodstream infection by 60% in the largest health trust in Wales is to travel to Ireland to explain the secret of his success.