{"id":816,"date":"2016-08-10T08:48:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T07:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/?p=816"},"modified":"2016-07-29T16:50:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T15:50:04","slug":"rise-in-wrong-site-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/rise-in-wrong-site-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise in Wrong-Site Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

There were 135 incidents of wrong-site surgery last year, compared with just 54 in 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n

Examples include a woman having her fallopian tube removed instead of an inflamed appendix, and a man whose kidney was accidentally taken out during a procedure to remove a pelvic tumour. A \u2018distorted anatomy\u2019 was blamed in both cases.<\/span><\/p>\n

In another incident the consent forms of two patients got mixed up, resulting in the wrong person undergoing exploratory surgery. <\/span><\/p>\n

Operating on the wrong patient or the wrong body part is considered to be a \u2018never event\u2019. <\/span><\/p>\n

Never events are serious patient safety incidents that should not occur if the correct preventative measures are implemented. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Royal College of Surgeons said: \u201cWhile these incidents are very rare, never should mean never.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLearning from mistakes and using best practice and guidance to avoid such errors should be the priority of every medical and surgical team across the country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Compensation for medical negligence<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

NHS England revises the list of never events each year. There are currently 14 on the list, including wrong implants, overdose of insulin and retained foreign objects.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you or your loved one has been harmed by a never event, there could be a medical compensation claim. Contact us for more information. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There were 135 incidents of wrong-site surgery last year, compared with just 54 in 2012. Examples include a woman having her fallopian tube removed instead of an inflamed appendix, and a man whose kidney was accidentally taken out during a procedure to remove a pelvic tumour. A \u2018distorted anatomy\u2019 was blamed in both cases. In […]<\/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":[39,908,907,55],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-never-events","tag-never-events-2","tag-surgical-errors","tag-wrong-patient-operated-on","tag-wrong-site-surgery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","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=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":817,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}