Source: NHS hospital waited two days before raising alarm about meningitis outbreak – BBC News
The NHS waited two days before raising the alarm about the meningitis outbreak, the BBC has learnt.
The UK Health Security Agency was first alerted to a case by the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital, in Margate, on the afternoon of Friday 13 March.
That patient arrived in hospital two days earlier but there was a delay in reporting to health officials – despite there being a legal requirement for cases to be reported immediately.
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