Instances of objects being wrongly left in patients' bodies and surgery being carried out in the wrong place at hospitals across Nottingham have dramatically risen. The incidents, known as never events, have increased across the city and county, as shown by a recent NHS report.
A never event is a mistake so serious it should never happen. Ten were recorded across Queen's Medical Centre and City Hospital between April 1, 2021 and March 31, 2022 - a rise of eight on the previous year.
Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH), the trust which runs the hospitals, had one of the worst rates in England, narrowly coming joint-second to Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (11). The most common mistake at NUH was wrong site surgery, where an operation is either carried out on the wrong person or wrong part of a person - this happened five times.
