Patient safety

NHS England warns of heart surgery infection risk

By 2017-03-23T15:49:00

Cardiac surgery

Source: Dominique Cappronnier

NHS England is writing to thousands of patients who have had open heart surgery to warn them they may be at risk of an infection that has killed 15 people.

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