Cataract inquiry shows patients suffered potentially serious harm Nineteen patients at Mount Stuart hospital in Torquay received antibiotic overdoses during eye surgery contracted out by NHS.
Two patients suffered potentially serious harm from overdoses of an antibiotic into their eyes and four others showed symptoms more than six weeks afterwards, according to an internal investigation into mistakes in cataract operations contracted out by the NHS to a private hospital.
In all, 19 patients received overdoses during surgery at Mount Stuart hospital, Torquay, part of the international private company, Ramsay Health Care on 26 July. The same drug error may have happened at the hospital the previous month, according to a report written in September and published by Ramsay on Tuesday .Continue reading... The Guardian
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