Hospital bosses sorry after swab left inside second East Lancs patient

[annie]

HOSPITAL bosses have again pledged to ‘learn lessons’ after it emerged a second patient had a swab left inside their body after surgery.

The latest blunder happened at the Royal Blackburn Hospital and resulted in the patient undergoing a further operation to retrieve the swab.

The incident was listed in newly-published NHS papers and has been classed as a ‘never event’, which is an incident deemed so serious that it should never happen in the NHS.

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) said the swab was removed in the same theatre session and the patient was not harmed, but said it could not release further details due to strict rules around patient confidentiality. The incident happened in March.

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[maureenho]

I don't think they learn lessons from some of these mistakes, I know of a young disabled man who had a swab left in his leg 10 years ago.

[Misspears]

It's frightening