Operating on the wrong person and patients falling out of windows - NHS 'never events' at near record levels Patients falling out of windows and equipment being left inside wounds after surgery were some of a near record number of 'never events' recorded by the NHS last year.
Campaigners have warned the same life-threatening mistakes, for which there can never be an excuse, are "disturbingly high" and often repeated, as official data reveals wrong site surgery took place 178 times in the 12 months before April.
Surgical swabs were mislaid inside patients after operations 22 times, the data shows, and in two cases broken-off drill bits were mislaid. The Daily Telegraph
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Campaigners have warned the same life-threatening mistakes, for which there can never be an excuse, are "disturbingly high" and often repeated, as official data reveals wrong site surgery took place 178 times in the 12 months before April.
Surgical swabs were mislaid inside patients after operations 22 times, the data shows, and in two cases broken-off drill bits were mislaid. The Daily Telegraph
See also:
- Learning from deaths in the NHS NHS Improvement
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