Hospital trusts failing to check inpatients' risk of deadly clots

By Helen Crump2008-05-29T00:00:00

More than half of hospital trusts are not carrying out government-backed checks for vascular conditions that kill around 25,000 people a year. Only 29 per cent of trusts carry out checks for all inpatients.

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