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🔴 The Telegraph can reveal the 5 NHS England trusts where patients who died with Covid were most likely to have caught the disease at hospital.

Search your postcode to see the number of hospital acquired infections in your nearby NHS England trusts 👇
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The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust topped the list, after 213 patients who had been admitted for other illnesses “probably” or “definitely” caught Covid on its wards, accounting for a third of all the trust’s Covid deaths

📈Whilst some of the areas on the list had high numbers of Covid cases in the community, driving up infection rates in hospital, the high rate of Covid deaths linked to hospital-acquired infections is likely to spark concerns
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It comes after The @Telegraph disclosed on Monday that 11,600 people died after they went into hospital with other illnesses, and “probably” or “definitely” caught Covid whilst they were there

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🔴 The true scale of deaths following hospital-acquired Covid is likely to be even higher, as some hospital trusts refused to disclose recent data, and two hospital trusts declined to disclose the data at all

🗣️Rosie Cooper, the Labour MP and a member of the Commons health and social care select committee, said that the “scale” of deaths following Covid infections caught in hospital “is not acceptable”

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