NHS patients struggling with superbugs to be offered poo transplants

Revolutionary treatment for C diff infections that transfers gut bacteria from healthy faeces given the green light by Nice

Hundreds of patients struggling to ward off superbugs are to be treated with poo transplants on the NHS using gut bacteria taken from healthy donors' faeces.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice), the health regulator, has given the green light for a faecal microbiota transplant (FMT) to be offered to people who have been treated for two or more Clostridium difficile (C diff) infections without success.