Mothers angry over hospital's HIV test mix-up
12 April 2012
Thirty new mothers at a hospital repeatedly criticised for failing patients were left in fear after a mix-up over HIV results.
They had each been given routine blood tests at Queen's Hospital in Romford. One tested positive for HIV but a later check proved negative. Staff rang the other women nearly three months after the tests to inform them of a possible mix-up.
One of the patients, Rosemary Din, who was given the all-clear, called her ordeal "disgusting".
A spokesman for the Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust apologised but said it was vital to have the correct information.
