PERFORMANCE: A swab was left inside a patient after childbirth at Barnsley Hospital Foundation Trust.
The incident has been reported as a never event, and brings the total to three for 2012-13.
The trust also reported four serious incidents in February, including a nurse dropping patient identifiable information in a school playground and a patient suffering head injury in a fall.
March 2013
PERFORMANCE: Barnsley Hospital Foundation Trust missed its four hour A&E waiting time target in September by one patient, according to board papers from Barnsley Clinical Commissioning Group.
A South Yorkshire trust is to share a chair with its neighbour as part of a programme of “partnership working”.
One of the final seven trusts without an electronic patient record is set to partner with its neighbour to implement Oracle Health’s system.
South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Integrated Care System has confirmed two of its five hyper acute stroke units will close by October as part of major reconfiguration plans.
Patient not told of aneurysm for four years before his death Trust had no protocol in place to flag up £potentially life threatening” radiological results Health secretary asked to consider a trust review of procedures A coroner has called on the health secretary to examine a trust’s systems ...
PERFORMANCE: Barnsley Hospital Foundation Trust is no longer in breach of its licence to provide accident and emergency services, Monitor has announced.
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