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‘Never events’ are when surgical equipment such as swabs, scissors and needles are left inside patients after an operation. They should never happen, fortunately, they are extremely rare but it appears that some hospitals make more mistakes than others.
From November 2014, NHS provider bodies registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) are required to comply with a new Statutory Duty of Candour (DOC). Independent sector health providers will also need to comply from 1 April 2015, subject to further legislation.
A 60-year old man from Southport fell 4 metres off a bungalow roof and fractured his skull and back and broke several ribs in the process.
The man was asked to repair a broken ridge tile on the roof of a bungalow. He normally works for a company that specialises in manufacturing and repairing electrical test equipment but the managing director is also a landlord for several homes and asked him to do the repair work on his properties.
The amount of patients dying needlessly in NHS hospitals has exploded with an increase of 500% in the last 10 years. The increase has been blamed in part on medical prescription errors and the adverse side-effects of their medicines. Questions are being asked whether this could simply be solved by having more checks in place.