According to recent figures, since 2005, the NHS has paid about £112m in legal claims due to doctors not being able to spot deadly blood clots.

A lot has been paid to people by the NHS according to the NHS Litigation Authority data as medics were unable to screen for or give treatments to prevent the condition.

Clot risk is something that should be screened in people who get admitted to hospitals and this has been stated by guidelines introduced early last year.

Hospitals need to wake up and following these findings the charity Lifeblood says that hospitals must be more conscious.

The claims from 2005 to 2015 could be more than £250m if doctors did not pay attention to what the best-practice guidelines state.

Every year, there are about 25,000 deaths due to blood clots or venous thromboembolism in England alone and experts state that these deaths can be easily avoided if care is given to people.

The charity's medical director, Professor Beverley Hunt, warned, “The NHS has some excellent new thrombosis prevention guidelines in place but if hospitals don't take urgent action to meet these mandatory prevention goals, then patients will increasingly turn to the courts for compensation.”