In what NHS calls ‘never events’, items including swabs, blades and drill bits left in patients 291 times in England in 2021-22
A rising number of medical foreign objects, including wire cutters, scalpel blades and drill bits, have been left inside hospital patients after surgery inBlunders involving a “foreign object accidentally left in body during surgical and medical care” led to 291 “finished consultant episodes” in 2021-2022, official data shows.Digital data does not make clear when or where the patient had their initial operation, or whether it was on the NHS or in a private hospital.
Last year’s record high was more than double the lowest total over the last two decades, when 138 episodes were recorded by clinicians in 2003-2004. There were 156 foreign object cases in 2001-2002.and even surgical devices, including drill bits. Last year, the average age of patients with something left inside them after an operation was 57. A broad age range was affected by the errors, from babies to patients aged over 90.
Rachel Power, the chief executive of the Patients Association, said: “Never events are called that because they are serious incidents that are entirely preventable because the hospital or clinic has systems in place to prevent them from happening. “While we fully appreciate the crisis facing the NHS, never events simply should not occur if the preventive measures are implemented.”
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