EXCL: A MailOnline audit of a decade's worth of NHS data found a colossal 4,300 never-events have occurred in England since 2013.This equates to roughly eight a week.
EXCL: NHS medics are performing the wrong type of surgery 3 times per week. READ MORE: Health service adopts early warning system to prevent child deathsBungling NHS staff are carrying out the equivalent of one 'never-event' every day, figures show.
Here are the NHS trusts/private providers with the most never-events recorded in the past decade. Figures include health service organisations which have merged Retired police officer died after his head became trapped in his NHS hospital bed Max Dingle, 83, died 15 minutes after he was found 'entrapped' on a ward at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital on May 3, 2020.
Retired police officer Max Dingle, 83, died 15 minutes after he was found 'entrapped' on a ward at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital on May 3, 2020 In fact, wrong site surgery was recorded three times a week in the NHS on average in 2022/23, the latest year of complete data — triple the figure recorded when Mr Hunt first spoke out.
Patient safety charity Action against Medical Accidents said the data uncovered by this website suggested the NHS was failing to learn from never-events and that the problem could even get worse in the future. 'Although the NHS is under significant pressure, these never events should not occur if the available preventative measures are implemented.'
In total, 1,806 such cases of wrong site surgery have been recorded across the NHS in England since 2013, the most of any type of never-events.Rounding out the top three was London's Guy's and St Thomas' and University Hospitals Birmingham .Ramsay Health Care UK, a private provider with 37 facilities across country, was the only independent to make the list .
Some of the most common type of never-events in the NHS are surgeons performing an operation on the wrong part of the body and medics leaving objects behind in patient's bodies after surgery. This graphic shows some of the most shocking examples. Source: NHS Notes describing the incident blamed the fact she was heavily pregnant at the time, and the 'distortion' of her anatomy, for the mistake.One man in 2019/20 was scheduled for a frenuloplasty, a specific procedure to cut away a tight fold of skin on the underside of the penis to increase its range of motion, when the mix-up occurred.
But what he didn't and couldn't have known is that his surgery at the Luton & Dunstable University Hospital had left a ticking time bomb inside of him. 'Several agents are known to predispose formation of angiosarcoma including a surgical sponge or gauze retained for a prolonged period in a body cavity,' it read. His widow, Christine, a former legal secretary from Luton, said she was devastated when she learned what had caused her husband's cancer.
MailOnline's audit also revealed 1,088 cases related specifically to objects being left inside patients. Previous estimates have put the annual bill of compensating patients and families for never-events at £800million. An NHS England spokesperson said staff work 'exceptionally hard' to keep patients safe but never-events, while rare, are fully investigated.
'When never events do occur, we require trusts to investigate them and take effective actions to improve safety as part of the NHS Patient Safety Strategy.' 'While they should never happen, we encourage staff to report them when they do occur so we can learn from mistakes and reduce the risk of recurrence in future.'
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