{"id":671,"date":"2012-12-21T08:56:38","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T08:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/?p=671"},"modified":"2021-10-22T07:03:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T07:03:44","slug":"hospital-blunders-serious-untoward-incidents-never-events-sui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/2012\/12\/21\/hospital-blunders-serious-untoward-incidents-never-events-sui\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital blunders investigated by Melanie Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Help Me Investigate user <strong>Melanie Hall<\/strong> has been using Freedom of Information requests to look at &#8216;hospital blunders&#8217;: <strong>serious untoward incidents <\/strong>(SUIs)\u00a0and<strong> &#8216;never events&#8217;<\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanie-hall.co.uk\/2012\/12\/foi-requests-reveal-blunders-at.html\">She reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Surgeons operating on the wrong side of the body, swabs left inside patients after surgery and the wrong implant being used were among the blunders happening at NHS health services across England last year&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Overall, her investigation reveals\u00a0at least 6,000 serious untoward incidents (SUIs)\u00a0and more than 100 &#8216;never events&#8217;.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>SUIs<\/strong>\u00a0include &#8220;cases of patients acquiring\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/MRSA\/Pages\/Introduction.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">MRSA<\/a>\u00a0in hospital and confidential information leaks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<strong>Never events<\/strong>\u00a0are serious incidents in healthcare settings which are largely preventable and should therefore never happen, and these fall into 25\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dh.gov.uk\/health\/2012\/01\/never-events-update\/\" target=\"_blank\">categories<\/a>, such as wrong site surgery, wrong implant\/prosthesis, retained foreign object post-operation, and falls from unrestricted windows.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can find out more about Melanie&#8217;s findings, including full data and reaction from\u00a0the charity\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.avma.org.uk\/\">Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA)<\/a>, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanie-hall.co.uk\/2012\/12\/foi-requests-reveal-blunders-at.html\">her post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tweetthis\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><p> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Hospital+blunders+investigated+by+Melanie+Hall+http%3A%2F%2Fhelpmeinvestigate.com%2Fhealth%2F%3Fp%3D671\" title=\"Post to Twitter\"><img class=\"nothumb\" src=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/en\/twitter\/tt-twitter.png\" alt=\"Post to Twitter\" \/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Hospital+blunders+investigated+by+Melanie+Hall+http%3A%2F%2Fhelpmeinvestigate.com%2Fhealth%2F%3Fp%3D671\" title=\"Post to Twitter\">Tweet This Post<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Help Me Investigate user Melanie Hall has been using Freedom of Information requests to look at &#8216;hospital blunders&#8217;: serious untoward incidents (SUIs)\u00a0and &#8216;never events&#8217;. She reports: &#8220;Surgeons operating on the wrong side of the body, swabs left inside patients after &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/2012\/12\/21\/hospital-blunders-serious-untoward-incidents-never-events-sui\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,15,16],"tags":[341,346,315,339,332,149,345,340,342,344,343],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}