The keyboard developed by the University College London Hospitals NHS Trust is designed to be flat so that it is easy to clean; more than that, it is coated with silicone to keep the bacteria off.
MRSA is responsible for 5,000 deaths each year in the UK. It is a one of many hospital-acquired infections and research has proven that as many as 25 percent of keyboards carry the bug.
The hospital is now ready to install the new keyboards and if successful, the rest of the NHS is likely to follow.
BBC News reports that Duncan Burton, the matron in charge of infection control at UCL, said: "They're flat, they're very easy to clean with alcohol wipes, it makes it much quicker for nurses to clean them and nurses are responsible for cleaning keyboards in the clinical areas."
"So it's much more efficient to have a flat keyboard which is easy to clean and also has an automatic reminder light to remind staff to clean them."
Researchers at the Trust say that keyboards cleaned twice a day lowers the bacterial count by 70 percent.
The microbiologist who thought of the idea for the keyboards, Dr Peter Wilson said: "The numbers of keyboards are going to rise astronomically in the next few years."
"We're going for electronic patient records. That means that everything that used to be on the chart at the end of the bed will be now put into the keyboard."
"And so there is a risk that if transmission is occurring between patients via keyboards, this is going to be doubled, trebled, quadrupled in the near future," explained Wilson.
Another researcher on superbugs, Mark Enright from Imperial College London tells the BBC, "What we have to do is try to interrupt the transmission of MRSA, which is mainly by touch."
Enright adds that the keyboards are a step in the right direction, "Things like keyboards that are being rolled out into the NHS - if we can stop transmission of MRSA and other organisms from keyboard touching that would help. It's obviously going to be a positive step."
