Never Event News Today

A never event is an incident which is preventable to the point it should never occur at the trust if all of the available prevention is…

Editor’s note: The following story is co-published with Matt Bivens’ Substack newsletter, The 100 Days. There is something in medicine we worry about a lot called “a Never Event.” This is an error so terrible we hope it will never be made. The classic example would be accidentally taking the wrong patient to the OR for someone else’s surgery. Or, a similar example, you’ve got the correct patient but still end up doing the wrong surgery — replacing the wrong hip, or biopsying the wr...

A Never Event is an incident which is preventable to the point it should never occur if all available prevention is implemented.

Neinstein's Brandyn Di Domenico on the dangers of hospital staff not following hospital policies

HOSPITAL leadres have responded after the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has downgraded surgical services and the Trust’s Well-led rating from…

HOSPITAL leadres have responded after the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has downgraded surgical services and the Trust’s Well-led rating from…

One woman had her ovaries removed by mistake when the plan was to conserve them. Read more:

One woman had her ovaries removed by mistake when the plan was to conserve them. Read more:

One woman had her ovaries removed by mistake when the plan was to conserve them. Read more:

There have been nearly 100 cases of a foreign object—including drill bits—left inside NHS patients by mistake, according ...