Is Mid Staffs a one-off or highlighting common problems across the UK?

摘要

Nurses at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust have been disciplined and one suspended after the trust revealed a patient had been discharged with a cannula left in their arm. The trust has declared the incident, which happened in early April, as a local "never event". After investigating the incident, the trust found the discharge checklist that had been completed by nurses had been ticked to say the cannula had been removed when it had not.