The HSIB conducts independent investigations into patient safety concerns in NHS-funded care across England, working closely with patients, families and healthcare staff affected by safety incidents.
The trust s chief executive, Louise Barnett, said: “This agreement with HSIB represents a key milestone for the trust as we work to implement the actions set out in the Ockenden report.
“It is really important that we engage effectively and sensitively, and listen to any women and families that wish to speak with us. It is their experiences that will help us to learn and improve the services we deliver now and into the future.”
40,600 People Likely Contracted COVID-19 While in Hospital for Another Condition, NHS Figures Show
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The number of abortions in England and Wales spiked by almost 30 per cent at the peak of the first wave, official figures revealed today.
Charities said more pregnant women were seeking terminations because of anxiety over providing for existing children and the financial strain of the pandemic.
The surge in numbers saw 20,546 terminations carried out in England and Wales in April last year, compared to 16,006 in the same month a year earlier.
It came as ministers for the first time gave permission for women to have abortions at home without medical supervision, something deemed necessary because it was difficult to get doctors appointments during the first wave of the coronavirus outbreak.
Hospital transmission is a major driver of infection that is still being ignored
Researchers found that 30 per cent of cases in which patients died, or spent time in critical care, were linked to a recent hospital visit
Almost two thirds of people who died or became severely ill from Covid in December may have caught the disease in hospital, a major study has found.
Researchers from Public Health Scotland s Covid-19 Health Protection Study Group, looked at all Scottish coronavirus cases reported outside of care homes between March 2020 and January 28, 2021.
Over the entire study period, 30 per cent of coronavirus cases in which patients died, or spent time in critical care, were linked to a recent hospital visit, the study showed.
Experts warned the lost referrals could lead to thousands of delayed diagnoses and avoidable deaths.
NHS England data shows the number of patients urgently referred for the cancer fell by 28 per cent between April 2020 and January of this year - about 52,000 fewer.
The charity Prostate Cancer UK estimates at least 8,600 fewer men started treatment for prostate cancer in that time, down around a third on 2019.
It said the drop in referrals is largely attributed to fewer men seeing their GP during this time. Urgent cancer referrals are made when family doctors strongly suspect a patient may have the disease.
For example, separate NHS Digital figures show there have been 35million GP appointments over the course of the pandemic.
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