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Secret medical negligence payouts revealed

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by Clarissa Bye
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Medical negligence claims in hospitals are costing NSW taxpayers nearly $100 million a year, an investigation by The Daily Telegraph has found.
The payouts are for medical mistakes and malpractice and can range from incorrect diagnoses, amputations caused by the wrong antibiotics being prescribed, to surgical procedures on the wrong body parts.
Details of the cases are kept secret from the public and require numerous freedom of information requests across multiple local health districts to simply uncover the huge financial sums involved.
The government documents show the Illawarra Shoalhaven paid out the most in 2019 - $19.95 million to finalise 47 claims.

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Death bungle: Nurses face tribunal after patient suffocates

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by Clarissa Bye and Danielle Gusmaroli
15th Feb 2021 8:51 PM
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A horrific medical incident at a Sydney hospital, in which an elderly man who breathed through an opening in his neck died after a nurse covered it up with a bandage, highlights the problem of accidents in hospitals, a safety campaigner says.
Two nurses involved in the incident at Randwick's Prince of Wales Hospital were found guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct last month.
The complaint against the senior nurse was found to be "sufficiently serious to justify suspension or cancellation of her registration".
Nurse Nelley Youssef was found guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct and professional misconduct in relation to a patient’s death at Prince of Wales Hospital.

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