Mother left with SEVEN-INCH forceps inside her body for three months in shocking toll of 750 NHS blunders

UK Daily Mail

Donna Bowett, 42, had instrument left inside her after keyhole surgery

Nurse has been forced to change jobs and received six-figure payout

More than 750 have suffered in a similar way since 2009, FOI reveals

Botched care included 214 people who had wrong organ operated on

And NHS staff have left 332 medical tools inside patients

"During the past four years there have been 762 so-called ‘never events’ at NHS hospitals – blunders deemed so serious they should never happen.
They include 322 cases of medical instruments being left in the body and 214 operations on the wrong limb or organ. In another 73 incidents, feeding tubes or medication lines were fed into the lungs instead of the stomach and in 58 cases patients were fitted with the wrong implant or prosthetic limb.
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"He also argued that hospitals have no incentive to report never events because they may have to reimburse the cost of the procedure to the NHS as well as paying for the patients’ long-term care.
"He added: ‘The figures really are the tip of the iceberg.’"