David Maddox: C.Dif strikes again

There is a good deal of self congratulation going on in Holyrood at the moment.
The Scottish Government have finally agreed that C.Dif statistics should be produced on a hospital by hospital basis rather than a health board by health board one. The importance of is that it means failing hospitals can no longer hide in successful health board.
For example the stats for Vale of Leven Hospital (where 18 people's were C.Dif related and where all the fuss began), were masked a little by an altogether rosier picture for the entire Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Authorty.
So obviously the SNP are pleased with themselves for being the ones who made this important change.
Labour have put out a press release claiming that it was their pressure that done it. And the Tories (who in fact want the figures to be ward by ward) say it was in fact they who highlighted the issue.
Getting political capital for something is what parties have to do, but in this case the patients are probably the real winners.