Concern over deaths at five hospital trusts

 Patients are dying at a higher than expected rate at 10 NHS hospital trusts, figures reveal.

Campaigners have condemned as “very troubling” official mortality data suggesting significant numbers of unnecessary deaths at seven per cent of all trusts in England.

Five, including two named in a report into serious hospital failures, have shown high numbers of deaths for the second year running.

These were trusts at South Tyneside, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals, Wye Valley, Southend University Hospital and United Lincolnshire Hospitals.