Essex hospital trust has most ‘never events’ in England

NHS figures have shown that more serious patient safety rules were breached in the last year by Colchester Hospital University Trust than any other trust in England.

Nine errors considered so serious that they should never happen occurred at the trust in a 12 month period between 2014 and 2015, with as many as 420 “serious incidents” occurring in the same period. Errors included five counts of items being left inside patients’ bodies, three “wrong site” surgeries and one “wrong implant”.

Chief executive of the Patients Association, Katherine Murphy, said that the results were “utterly unacceptable.”

“Incidents of wrong site surgery and retained foreign objects are utterly unacceptable and pose a huge risk to patient safety.

“A visit to hospital can be highly stressful at the best of times and at the very least, patients deserve to be treated in a safe, regulated environment.”

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Posted by Karen Motley, Paralegal, Clinical Negligence Department, Chadwick Lawrence LLP (karenmotley@chadlaw.co.uk ), Medical negligence lawyers and clinical negligence solicitors in Huddersfield, Leeds, Wakefield and Halifax, West Yorkshire.

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