These complications, as recorded on HSA4 form include a) sepsis, b) haemorrhage, and c) uterine perforation.
1. Please can you tell me the number of women your hospital has treated with each of these complications between Jan 1st and December 1st this year?
2. Please can you also tell me how many women you treated in your hospitals between Jan 1st and December 1st of this year, for incomplete abortion or RPOC, specifying the number requiring Evacuation of Retained Products of Conception (ERPC) as well?
NB. This should include the treatment of women who may have received abortion pills from independent abortion providers before attending your hospital, as well as those who may have been prescribed abortion pills by your hospital (or hospitals within your trust).
If it complies within the FOI limitations (e.g. 18 hour time limit, cost, privacy etc.) please also specify the following:
a. What their complication was
b. Whether they required a blood transfusion
c. Whether they required antibiotics
We understand that some of these will be due to spontaneous abortion and others by medical induced abortion. Unless clearly stated you need not distinguish between them.
We also understand that most cases of sepsis and haemorrhage will not be formally connected with abortion, however where the possibility of a medical abortion cannot be ruled out we ask that you include this data.
