Oswestry hospital reveals 'never events'
Three serious medical ‘never events’ have been reported at one of the region’s hospitals – The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Hospital in Gobowen, near Oswestry.
Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group said two of the never events relate to spinal surgery and one to a procedure on the wrong finger.
The events are named so because they are incidents that guidelines say should never happen.
They have happened since July last year.
Health officials say never events are very serious incidents that are wholly preventable.
Primary care trusts are required to monitor the occurrence of never events within the services they commission.
They are instructed to publicly report them on an annual basis.
Three serious ‘never events’ happened at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital in October last year. They included two patients not having a guide wire removed after an invasive procedure and a patient being discharged after sinus surgery with ribbon gauze in the nostril.
