{"id":806,"date":"2016-07-25T08:25:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T07:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/?p=806"},"modified":"2016-07-21T14:07:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T13:07:40","slug":"never-events-at-welsh-hospitals-listed-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/never-events-at-welsh-hospitals-listed-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Events at Welsh Hospitals Listed Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">There have been 60 \u2018never events\u2019 at Welsh hospitals since April 2012, an online list confirms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">A \u2018never event\u2019 is a serious patient safety incident that should not happen if the correct safety measures are implemented.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">NHS Wales, which publishes an online list of the errors made at its hospitals, reveals there have been 60 never events between 2012 and 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Abertawe Bro Morgannwg health board and Betsi Cadwaladr were the worst performing, with 15 never events each.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Examples include a silicone object being left inside a patient, wrong-site surgery, overdose of insulin, the wrong patient undergoing surgery, and a patient falling from a window. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Cardiff and Vale health board recorded 13 never events, including retained swabs, a mis-placed naso-gastric tube and an intra-operative air embolism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">A spokesman for the Welsh Government said: \u201cEvery year, hundreds of thousands of people receive high-quality, safe care in the Welsh NHS. However, in an increasingly complicated and modern healthcare system, problems can unfortunately happen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u201cWhen problems do occur, NHS staff are encouraged to report all incidents so they can be investigated openly to promote learning and provide open feedback to patients and their families as part of our commitment to an open safety culture.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Preventable patient safety incidents <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">If you or your loved one has suffered a preventable patient safety incident, there could be a case of medical negligence. Please get in touch with us to find out more.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been 60 \u2018never events\u2019 at Welsh hospitals since April 2012, an online list confirms. A \u2018never event\u2019 is a serious patient safety incident that should not happen if the correct safety measures are implemented. NHS Wales, which publishes an online list of the errors made at its hospitals, reveals there have been 60 [&hellip;]<\/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":[896,39,897,898,289],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-never-events","tag-never-event-online-list","tag-never-events-2","tag-never-events-wales","tag-nhs-wales","tag-patient-safety-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","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=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":810,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}