Shocking death toll after NHS medics mix-up patients' food and air tubes over last five years

Shocking death toll after NHS medics mix-up patients' food and air tubes over last five years Nearly 30 patients have died after blundering NHS staff misplaced feeding tubes into their airways, MailOnline can reveal.

Over the past five years, 145 incidents of wrongly inserted nasogastric tubes have been officially recorded by hospitals in England. Twenty-eight ended in death.

Patients who have difficulty swallowing, such as stroke victims, can be fed or given medication through plastic tubes that go up the nose, and then loop down into the stomach. The Daily Mail