Vital information gathered about blood clots is still not being published three years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, a charity has said.
Thrombosis UK has warned that deaths involving blood clots are higher than expected as it called for more transparency over the work hospitals are doing to reduce the risk for patients.
Before the pandemic hit, hospitals were regularly publishing data on the number of patients who had been risk assessed for blood clots.
In March 2020, the NHS in England took the decision to suspend the data collection on venous thromboembolism (also known as VTE) risk assessments to “release capacity in providers and commissioners to manage the Covid-19 pandemic”.