Wrong tissue removed in Shropshire patient's surgery - report

A hospital trust has apologised to a patient after the wrong tissue was removed in a surgery.

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust launched an investigation after the surgical "never event" took place at one of its hospitals in July.

Two lesions were identified for removal one at a time, but the wrong one was removed in the first operation.

A full apology was given and the patient's questions would be considered in the investigation, a report said.

The report, presented to the trust's board of directors on Thursday, revealed the patient was "a little anxious" but understood the lesions - abnormal areas of tissue in the body - needed to be removed,

There were plans for a further procedure to remove the correct lesion.

The incident was classed as a "never event", the name given to incidents in the NHS considered so serious they should never happen.

The report also detailed 11 serious incidents recorded in July at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and Telford's Princess Royal Hospital along with a further eight in August.

Full investigations were underway into the cases which included falls which caused broken bones and head injuries and a "missed opportunity to identify psychosis".

A number of cases involved children, with concerns raised over how their condition was monitored and escalated when it worsened.

A sick child's Paediatric Early Warning Scoring was also found to have been calculated incorrectly in three separate cases and the trust said improvements have been made in this area.