#patient-safety

#patient-safety

It arose out of safety concerns in 2022 in relation to the treatment of a number of patients with Spina Bifida who had spinal surgery at CHI at Temple Street. These concerns related to poor clinical outcomes of some complex spinal surgery, including a high incidence of post-operative complications and infections, and two particularly serious surgical incidents, which occurred in July and September 2022.

As every week, month, year passes, women are getting more frustrated, upset. You can't put their pain on hold. A lot of them have had to give up work or reduce their hours. They're struggling to make ends meet. We have some members, they've had to sell their homes and move in with elderly parents, marriages broken down We see those women at three in the morning trying to put up a post saying, I don't want to be here any more'

Medical negligence in the NHS keeps harming and killing patients because governments and health service bosses have not acted on 24 years' worth of warnings, MPs have said. In a scathing report published on Friday, the public accounts committee (PAC) excoriates the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and NHS England for allowing the cost of mistakes to balloon to 3.6bn a year.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has rectified issues with its new electronic health record system and is all set to resume software deployments in just a few months, VA Secretary Doug Collins assured lawmakers on Wednesday, despite a host of unresolved recommendations from an agency watchdog on how to streamline the project. VA is preparing to restart rollouts of its new Oracle Health EHR system on April 1, following an operational pause in April 2023 that froze go-lives at most of the agency's medical facilities.

Some 94 patients treated by Yaser Jabbar suffered harm including 36 who suffered severe harm, an investigation published by the hospital has concluded. Jabber treated hundreds of children from 2017 to 2022. On top of the 36 children who suffered severe harm, 39 patients came to moderate harm and 19 patients came to mild harm. The study also reported that 642 patients did not come to harm that could be attributable to the surgeon.

Karen Stirrat and Charmaine Lacock are mothers of children they say were exposed to infections while being treated for cancer at Glasgow's flagship "super hospital". They were some of the first parents to voice fears that something in the way the buildings were constructed was inherently unsafe. Dozens of vulnerable children like theirs with cancer or blood disorders became even more unwell while being treated at the hospital. Some of them died.

A surgeon guilty of professional misconduct over the death of teenager Jessica Sheedy should be given a "very significant" sanction for his failings in her care, it has been urged.

The HSE Mid West has said it accepts "full institutional responsibility" for the "catastrophic and irreparable harm caused" when teenager Jessica Sheedy died at University Hospital Limerick.

Adult literacy advocate Toni Cordell recounts the story of feeling comforted when her doctor told her that her medical concern could be solved with an easy surgery. She agreed to proceed without asking further questions and didn't understand the medical consent forms because she didn't read well. At a follow-up office visit a couple of weeks after the procedure, Cordell was shocked when the nurse asked, "How are you feeling since your hysterectomy?"

Google disabled specific queries, such as "what is the normal range for liver blood tests," after experts contacted by The Guardian flagged the results as dangerous. The report also highlighted a critical error regarding pancreatic cancer: The AI suggested patients avoid high-fat foods, a recommendation that contradicts standard medical guidance to maintain weight and could jeopardize patient health. Despite these findings, Google only deactivated the summaries for the liver test queries, leaving other potentially harmful answers accessible.

The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) voted overwhelmingly on Monday to authorize a strike for 20,000 nurses in NYC a move made just two weeks before their contract expires. The nurses, all from private hospitals throughout the five boroughs, cited staffing issues, safety concerns, fair wages and other reasons for considering a strike. The union's vote on Dec. 22 now gives its bargaining committees the authority to call a strike if a contract that protects safe patient care is not settled by the end of the year.

Mrs Albino said: "We believe a series of systemic failures contributed to her death and we will not allow her to become just another case and a statistic." She added that her daughter's condition was worsened by anxiety. "As a family, we feel that nobody helped us and others actually worsened Emily's anxiety by not listening to our concerns," she added.

Breast cancer patients suffered unnecessary mastectomies, delayed diagnoses and a lack of compassionate care at an NHS Trust in north-east England, the BBC has learned. More than 200 cases are now being investigated at County Durham and Darlington Foundation Trust (CDDFT) - 43 of these are reported to involve significant harm. One death is also being examined. Women have told us they were left feeling "butchered" by surgery,

An NHS trust has been fined 200,000 for failing to provide "safe care and treatment" for a 16-year-old girl who died on hospital grounds after fleeing her ward. Ellame Ford-Dunn, from Upper Beeding, West Sussex, died at Worthing Hospital in March 2022 where she had been admitted as a mental health inpatient. She ran into the grounds of the hospital and was not immediately followed by a nurse because of "confusion" and a lack of appropriate procedure in place, the court heard.

Alice Figueiredo, 22, took her own life in a mental health unit at Goodmayes Hospital, Redbridge, after more than 10 similar attempts. Her death on 7 July 2015 followed a failure to remove items from the communal toilets on Hepworth Ward that had been used by her to self-harm. Following an Old Bailey trial, North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT) was found guilty of failing to ensure

Care homes that are graded as inadequate or requiring improvement are often not being reinspected for a year or more, a BBC investigation has found. More than 2,100 care homes in England as of October this year were rated as "requires improvement" by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) - but the BBC found three quarters of those had not been reinspected within a year or more.

I had a lady referred for a potential miscarriage from a clinic and when I scanned her they'd measured a bleed in the womb and they completely missed a very early pregnancy sac with a baby inside it, said Katie Thompson, a hospital sonographer and president of the SoR. Potentially, if they were at a private clinic that could offer a miscarriage service, then they could have been given some medication to bring on a miscarriage on a pregnancy that was actually not miscarrying, she said.

In one of my courses at Stanford Medical School, my classmates and I were tasked with using a secure AI model for a thought experiment. We asked it to generate a clinical diagnosis from a fictional patient case: "Diabetic retinopathy," the chatbot said. When we asked for supporting evidence, it produced a tidy list of academic citations. The problem? The authors didn't actually exist. The journals were fabricated. The AI chatbot had hallucinated.

Police are searching for a suspect who fatally assaulted a fellow patient inside Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx last month, law enforcement sources said. According to the NYPD, Cynthia Vann, of Concourse Village, was admitted to NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln on Sept. 10 for an unrelated medical condition when she was punched multiple times in the head by another patient as she slept and required emergency surgery. Vann remained hospitalized in critical condition until she died on Sept. 27.