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“It is vital that there is strong infection control in all hospitals and that all front-line personnel have access to ongoing routine routine tests. Ministers should implement measures to eradicate hospital-acquired Covid infections. “
Since August, NHS Trusts across the country have reported the number of “probable” Covid-19 infections acquired in hospitals, known as nosocomial infections.
The Telegraph has analyzed data submitted to NHS England by hospital trusts with A&E departments that have treated more than 100 Covid-19 patients since August, to find which hospitals reported a high number of hospital-acquired infections.
The largest proportion of cases is Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; followed by the NHS Trust of Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals with 37% (146 cases); and Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust with 34% (91 cases).
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust recorded that 100 of the patients they had treated for Covid-19, or nearly 22 percent, were hospital-acquired infections.
The Trust became the focus of national attention in the autumn when it accounted for more than a third of all coronavirus deaths among hospitalized patients in England in early September.
An investigation was launched after the Trust, which only includes one hospital, recorded a sudden and unexplained increase in deaths from coronavirus in a week in September.
NHS Improvement staff visited the site and it is understood that the Trust’s board was told that infection control procedures were “in order”.
However, after speaking with more than 20 families of those who were treated at the hospital, The Telegraph found that in some cases, doctors allegedly failed to separate patients experiencing coronavirus symptoms from those admitted to general wards, an apparent violation of NHS guidelines.
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