Hundreds of 'Never Events' Recorded in NHS Surgery Data

Hundreds of NHS patients have been harmed due to errors that should never have occurred, including operations on the wrong body part and medical objects being left inside them, new data shows. The errors documented in the data include operations performed on the incorrect body part. The same data set records instances in which medical objects were left inside patients after procedures.

@SkyNews reported the figures, which cover incidents classified as events that should never have occurred.