FOI/2025/26/219

Request

I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I would like to obtain the following information:

• The number of miscarried babies that were reported as discarded, lost, or contaminated in the Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust for the past five years.
• A breakdown of these incidents by year
• A breakdown of any costs due to these incidents
• A breakdown of hours spent by NHS workers either attempting to find or reporting or spending time on these incidents

This FOI follows this article https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/25393764.essex-womans-miscarried-baby-lost-hospital-contaminated/.

Please provide this information in an electronic format. If this request is too broad or unclear, I would be grateful if you could contact me to provide advice and assistance on how to refine it.

I am also contacting other NHS trusts across the United Kingdom.  

Response

After careful consideration, we can confirm that the Trust does not hold this information Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust does not provide maternity or acute hospital services and therefore does not hold the information you have requested. You may wish to redirect your request to the acute hospital trusts in our catchment areas, such as Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, or St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

If informal resolution is not possible and you are still dissatisfied, then you may apply for an independent internal review by notifying us via email clchig@nhs.net and this will be appropriately address by the relevant senior lead. Please note that any request for an internal review must be made within 40 working days of the date on which the attempt to reach informal resolution has come to an end.