UK charity sounds alarm on soaring blood clot deaths, calls on NHS to publish data it stopped collecting during lockdowns

A charity has warned that deaths are higher than expected as it called for more transparency over the work hospitals are doing to reduce risk. Vital information gathered about a serious condition 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.