A significant proportion of these incidents, 166 in total, involved wrong site surgery, including 17 cases where a procedure intended for one patient was performed on another, and 40 instances of treatment administered to the incorrect side or body part.
Overall, 121 of the never events related to foreign objects being left in patients after procedures or surgery, such as 26 guide wires, 21 surgical swabs, and 22 surgical instruments.
Some 50 never events involved the wrong implant or prosthesis, including for hips, knees, and eye lenses, alongside 17 cases of medication administered by the wrong route, with 15 instances of oral medication given intravenously.
Further serious errors included 14 patients suffering an overdose of insulin, nine patients being given the wrong blood type, and other incidents such as falls from poorly restricted windows and patients connected to air rather than oxygen.
