A woman who Forbidden His spine was removed NHS Surgical blunders this year,
New figures suggest that in the last one year there were more than 400 serious surgical mistakes on patients – in which the wrong limb was removed, the wrong body part or surgical devices were being released inside a patient’s body. In some cases, complete operations were carried out on the wrong patient.
The Royal College of Surgeons has now warned that NHS needs to understand what has happened Increase in events These mistakes are being repeated.
The victims are gills, who were advised Surgery After battling painful pain, his right cervical rib. But the surgeon performed Wrong operation and finished Removing parts of her vertebrae, leaving her with permanent damage to the spinal cord.
“I woke up the next morning and could not feel my arms and my legs and just thought ‘Oh my gosh what’s wrong with me”, “He told. Independent,
Part-time-kick was warned by doctors that she may not be able to walk again And was struggling to work and was unable to continue his active lifestyle, including dances. Her movements are limited and she struggles with her right hand function.
“Emotions were just frightening, because when you are told that you will never walk again, it is very difficult,” he said.
Through the bond turner of lawyers, Gill was able to compromise on his pain and pain and loss of amenity, loss of earnings, past and loss of future earnings loss; Future housing adaptation costs and domestic expenses; Care of past and future; equipment; And rehabilitation.
According to NHS provisional data, between April 2024 and March 2025, there were 403 similar incidents known as “ever events” – severe and large -scale stopped surgical mistakes.
A year ago, in 2023/24, there were 370 cases, while in 2022/23 there were 384. In 2021/22, 407 cases were reported and 364 in 2020/21 – more than 1,900 cases were reported in the last five years.
The most common type of surgical error, which was more than 45 percent of the “ever events” reported in the previous year, was “wrong site surgery”. This includes procedures performed on the wrong patient or wrong site, such as working on the wrong knee, eye or organ.
Provisional data has shown that, out of 185 “wrong site surgery” events, surgeons operated on the wrong body part in 46 cases. In 36 cases the wrong skin wound was removed, while in nine cases patients received a surgery for someone else.
In more than a quarter of events, a surgical instrument, part of the swab or needle was left inside the patient.
About 50 patients have received incorrect implants or prosthesis, including incorrect hip or knee replacement.
Other accidents included a transfusion of wrong blood, incorrectly given to the drug and overdose of insulin.
In most hospitals, these “sometimes events” occur only once or twice a year, but NHS data shows that, in the worst objectionable hospitals, these incidents can occur more than 10 times a year.
In the last one year, 10 incidents occurred at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, 11 and 13 at the University Hospital Southampton at the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. All these trusts have been contacted for comment.
Paul Gundundi, Chief Medical Officer of University Hospital Southampton, said: “We take any incident of this nature very seriously and regret it.
“No patient has a serious harm in any of these cases, although the trust is committed to giving very good standards of care and is always transparent in reporting mistakes, encouraging employees to report events if they are.
“On the rare occasion that we find things wrong, we do a thorough check, ensuring that we are shared to improve the quality and safety of clinical care and reduce the risk of recurrence.”
The Royal College of Surgeons said that hospitals need to take steps to understand that these mistakes are being repeated.
A spokesperson said: “Surgical teams take the safety of patients very seriously, using pre-post-operative check lists to help prevent mistakes.
“When mistakes occur, it is painful for both patients and employees.
“NHS hospitals need to carefully consider these figures and take steps to understand what has increased in events.
“They should learn from mistakes, in an open way, all theater staff should include changes in policies and procedures that can be repeated mistakes.”
These incidents have been recorded through a compulsory reporting system for NHS England and are examined by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
In the last decade, NHS has changed how the data is measured.
Prior to 2014/15, he has only included incidents where a patient was directly damaged. But this was replaced to incorporate events with the ability to harm a patient – leading to an increase in the number of recorded cases. In 2017/18, NHS made a slight change in sub-grains that were sometimes used to divide e-events into different types of cases.
A NHS spokesperson said: “NHS employees work extraordinaryly hard to keep patients safe and such incidents are extremely rare, but when they are, NHS trusts are made mandatory to check what has happened and to take effective steps to learn and improve them.”
