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Daily Mail
May 25, 2014
Up to 12,500 patients are dying needlessly every year on NHS wards because of blunders by staff, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt revealed last night.
He also said errors considered so serious they should never happen occurred six times a week.
One patient had heart surgery that was not needed after staff mixed up test results, a woman was left infertile because the wrong organs were removed, and feeding tubes were put into the lungs instead of the stomach on 14 separate occasions.
Mr Hunt said: ‘These are utterly, utterly shocking things that are happening week in, week out in our NHS.
‘Every fortnight we put the wrong prosthesis on someone, every week we operate on the wrong part of someone’s body.
‘Twice a week we leave a foreign object like a swab inside someone’s body. Last spring, in one of our major hospitals with a good reputation, we removed someone’s fallopian tube instead of her appendix.
‘Last summer we amputated the wrong toes from someone. This spring we gave the wrong man a vasectomy.’
Speaking to the Patient Safety Congress in Liverpool, he cited research showing that up to one in 20 hospital deaths in England could have been prevented.
He added: ‘Of the annual deaths in the NHS, around 5 per cent have a 50 per cent or greater chance of being avoidable.
‘That equates to 12,500 avoidable deaths every year in our NHS.’ In addition to this total – the equivalent of 240 every week, the latest figures from NHS England show there were 312 so-called ‘never-events’ in hospitals last year – or six every week.
They include 123 patients who had swabs, scalpels or other objects left inside them after surgery and 89 cases where doctors operated on the wrong body part.
One patient needlessly underwent major heart surgery to fit a stent to widen arteries because staff had mixed up his scan result with that of someone else.
