Blood Clots Continue To Kill UK Hospital Patients Unnecessarily

An All-Party Parliamentary Report published exposes NHS Trusts in unnecessary DVT deaths. Over 10,700 hospital patients may have died as a result of NHS Trusts’ failure to implement key recommendations on DVT published over seven months ago.1, 2- Unnecessary deaths from DVT in the last seven months may equate to nearly three times the number of deaths from hospital acquired infections, such as MRSA and C Difficile*1,2,3- The NHS currently spends only £27. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Blood on November 20th, 2007