Quality and performance

Exclusive: Patients at risk as blood clot assessments decline

By 2018-05-08T06:00:00

Surgery

Thousands of hospital patients are being put at risk of developing deadly blood clots that cost the NHS hundreds of millions of pounds because of a failure to carry out a routine assessment.

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