un s development chief speaking. abortion providers are worried about plans to end a framework that allows women to access their services remotely without visiting a clinic, and take abortion medications at home. they say remote consultations are safe and more acceptable for women and girls, though this is due to end in august in england. however, some senior safeguarding doctors are worried about girls under 18. mps are voting today on whether so called telemedicine and pills at home should continue. faye kirkland who is also a gp reports. in the last two years, abortion services for women and girls have changed. clinics say around 150,000 people in england have been treated remotely, receiving two sets of medications to take it home. this is one of the clinics approved to help women have early medical abortions. before the pandemic, women used to have to come face to face and take their first pill but now the medication can be sent through the
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By Dr Faye Kirkland, Charles Young, Max Hudson
BBC Panorama
Serious patient safety issues are being buried in confidential hospital reports, BBC Panorama has found.
Freedom of Information requests revealed 111 reports, written by medical royal colleges, which NHS trusts have a duty to share.
Eighty reports were given to the BBC but only 26 had been shared in full with regulators, and 16 published.
The Department of Health would not comment on whether it might change the law to ensure publication. A great disappointment
Since the 2015 Morecambe Bay maternity scandal in which 11 babies and a mother died, NHS Trusts are supposed to publish summaries of external reviews, and share them with the regulator.
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