A new report from the Surgical Never Events Taskforce makes a series of recommendations for new standards and systems to further improve the safety of surgery in English hospitals.
In response to the report findings, NHS England has committed to identifying practical ways to take forward the report’s recommendations to eradicate Never Events from surgical procedures.
The Surgical Never Events Taskforce was commissioned by NHS England last year to examine why currently available preventative tools and guidance are not succeeding in completely eliminating surgical never events – a number of identified types of serious errors that should never occur, such as surgery on the wrong part of the bod
