Nhs surgeons have carried out dozens of operations on the wrong parts of patients’ bodies over the past year.
Figures yesterday revealed 57 “wrong site surgery” cases, including ops on the wrong leg, eye and organs.
The mix ups were among 111 “never events” – things that should never happen in the NHS – last year.
Other major blunders included 41 cases of misplaced feeding tubes in adult and child patients.
Health chiefs yesterday announced the number of never events is to increase sharply under a shake up of the monitoring system.
From next year the data will include such things as medical instruments and swabs left in patients’ bodies, chemotherapy blunders and death or injury from transfusion of the wrong blood.
Health minister Simon Burns yesterday said: “Across the NHS there must be a culture of patient safety above all else.”
Mirror UK