Bungling NHS staff are carrying out the equivalent of one ‘never-event’ every day, figures show.
This is despite the Government ordering a crackdown on the mistakes, which cost hospitals an estimated £800million in compensation each year.
Experts today demanded further action on ‘unacceptable’ levels of never-events, blaming inadequate staffing levels and a lack of investment in the NHS.
A MailOnline audit of a decade’s worth of NHS data found a colossal 4,328 never-events have occurred in England since 2013.
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