Home oxygen fires cause hundreds of patient deaths and thousands of injuries around the world every year.
But according to a Freedom of Information request to local National health Service (NHS) organisations conducted by medical gas specialist BPR Medical, home oxygen fires in England led to only one death between 2013 and 2017.
BPR asked 212 Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in England how many incidents and fatalities involving home oxygen they had recorded for each year over the five-year period.
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