Hospital trust's response to first meningitis case 'not good enough', says Wes Streeting

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said the response from the The Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital in Margate to the meningitis outbreak in Kent was 'not acceptable, and it is not good'. The hospital notified the UKHSA of the first case within 26 hours, when they were supposed to do so within 24 hours.Mr Streeting said: “We will obviously look more into what went wrong and why, and I’m expecting an account of that failure, not just to the UK Health Security Agency, but to me as the Health and Social Care Secretary.” He said there has been a “remarkable response” from health and education staff, adding: “So far, the results are encouraging, we’re beginning to see the numbers of known, confirmed, suspected cases fall."