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 region’s first specialist children’s hospital – combining physical and mental health services – may be opened in 2023 now the government has approved up to £100m for the long-planned project, the lead chief executive has told HSJ.
The chief executive of a special measures trust has stepped down just weeks after its chair departed.
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 for
PERFORMANCE: Barnsley Hospital Foundation Trust is no longer in breach of its licence to provide accident and emergency services, Monitor has announced.
WORKFORCE: The finance director of the challenged Barnsley Hospital Foundation Trust has been dismissed for gross misconduct after misstating its accounts.
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