{"id":702,"date":"2016-02-23T08:15:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T08:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/?p=702"},"modified":"2021-02-23T13:28:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T13:28:12","slug":"over-1000-never-events-a-disgrace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/over-1000-never-events-a-disgrace\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 1,000 Never Events A \u201cDisgrace\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

There were nearly 1,200 \u2018never events\u2019 in England over the past four years, something the Patients Association has called a \u201cdisgrace\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

A \u2018never event\u2019 is a serious patient safety incident that can be prevented as long as the correct safety guidelines are implemented. <\/span><\/p>\n

There are 14 different incidents on the never events list, none of which should ever occur in an NHS hospital or organisation.<\/span><\/p>\n

But according to an analysis by the Press Association there have been nearly 1,200 never events in England between April 2012 and December 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

Specific examples include a male patient who had his entire testicle removed instead of a cyst, and a woman whose fallopian tubes were removed instead of her appendix.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are further incidents of wrong-site surgery, along with foreign objects being left inside patients after operations, feeding tubes inserted into the lungs instead of a stomach, wrong types of blood infusions and medication errors.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHow are such basic, avoidable mistakes still happening?\u201d<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Katherine Murphy, chief executive of the Patients Association, said: \u201cIt is a disgrace that such supposed \u2018never\u2019 incidents are still so prevalent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHow are such basic, avoidable mistakes still happening? There is clearly a lack of learning in the NHS. It is especially unforgivable to operate on the wrong organ, and many such mistakes can never be rectified.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

An NHS spokeswoman said: \u201cOne never event is too many and we mustn\u2019t underestimate the effect on the patients concerned.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTo better understand the reasons why, in 2013 we commissioned a taskforce to investigate, leading to a new set of national standards being published last year specifically to support doctors, nurses and hospitals to prevent these mistakes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAny organisation that reports a serious incident is also expected to conduct its own investigation so it can learn and take action to prevent similar incidents from being repeated.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Medical negligence solicitors<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

If you or your loved one has been harmed by avoidable medical mistakes, please get in touch with us at Glynns Solicitors. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There were nearly 1,200 \u2018never events\u2019 in England over the past four years, something the Patients Association has called a \u201cdisgrace\u201d. A \u2018never event\u2019 is a serious patient safety incident that can be prevented as long as the correct safety guidelines are implemented. There are 14 different incidents on the never events list, none of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[585,39,289,467,582,55],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-never-events","tag-never-event","tag-never-events-2","tag-patient-safety-incidents","tag-patients-association","tag-retained-surgical-instrument","tag-wrong-site-surgery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}