The reviews are carried out if treatment has led to an unexpected death or serious complications.
An ageing brain surgery unit that was described as ‘very high risk’ by has investigated nearly 20 incidents where a patient has died or suffered harm in the past five years, figures show.
Our sister title The Herald revealed in April that the crumbling buildings had been categorised as ‘very high risk’ for patients and staff due to ventilation failures, poor drainage and sewage leaks which led to elective surgery being cancelled for two years at one point. The highest amount - £597,263 - was spent over 2015/2016, at a time when all elective surgery was cancelled due to a series of incidents which saw raw sewage leak from the ageing building into operating theatres and recovery rooms.In 2012, £25 million was spent improving facilities but essential upgrades to improve drainage were abandoned because the repairs would have taken 10-12 years and required multiple wards to be decanted elsewhere.
A total of 1,672 operations were cancelled from 2015-2021 for clinical reasons or by patients themselves. The health board said the situation has “improved dramatically” in the past year with the recruitment of three new consultants with a fourth due to be appointed later this year. According to board papers the backlog of maintenance issues is said to be in the region of £25million and is resulting in snap closures of wards.
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