Shropshire hospital gave patient wrong size prosthetic during operation

It has been revealed that a patient received the wrong sized prosthetic implant during surgery at a specialist orthopaedic hospital.

 

Bosses at Shropshire NHS Trust found that a small implant was inserted into a patient at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt (RJAH) hospital in May, rather than a medium-sized one.

 

It is the third ‘never event’ to take place at the hospital in Oswestry in the past two years.

 

Earlier this year, the hospital was placed under investigation after two patients were mistakenly injected in the wrong side of their bodies.

 

The latest event was reported to the Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Group in September and will be discussed in a meeting on Wednesday.

 

The CCG report said “There was one never event reported by the trust during September.  This was a surgical error whereby a small prosthesis was implanted instead of a medium-sized one.”

 

The hospital has not specified the type of operation or the function of the implant.

 

In its latest report it said, following a review of the surgery, that “no further immediate actions were required”.

 

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Posted by Tony May, Partner/head of Clinical Negligence Department, Chadwick Lawrence LLP (tonymay@chadlaw.co.uk ), medical negligence lawyers and clinical negligence solicitors in Huddersfield, Leeds, Wakefield and Halifax, West Yorkshire.

 

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