PERFORMANCE: Salisbury Foundation Trust is being sued by a patient who had the wrong testicle removed during surgery and can no longer have children.

The trust has apologised to the 48-year-old man from Wiltshire and has said it has since changed its processes as a result of the error.

The man, who has not been named, was informed of the mistake immediately after surgery.

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust said in a statement: “We have received notification from solicitors of pending legal action.

“This is a regrettable incident and the trust once again offers its sincere apologies to the patient.”

It added: “The patient was informed straight after the completion of surgery of the situation and that additional surgery had taken place to rectify this.

“The trust carried out a thorough investigation and as part of this the trust immediately made changes to its processes.”

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Source date

February 2013

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