Sixty-three people died in hospitals in Nottingham after patient safety incidents over the space of a year, according to NHS figures. Patient safety incidents, as defined by NHS England, are any unintended or unexpected incident which could have, or did, lead to harm for one or more patients receiving healthcare.
Examples include failure to provide or monitor care, a breakdown in communication, an out-of-control infection in a hospital, insufficient staffing, or a missed diagnosis. Between April 2021 and March 2022, 32,610 incidents resulted to harm in patients at Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH), which runs Queen's Medical Centre and City Hospital, figures have shown.
The newly-released figures, which equates to 89 a day, represent 5,523 more than the previous year. Sixty-three patients died in 2021/22, with a further 83 severely harmed harmed - this is compared to nine deaths and 50 severely harmed patients the year prior.
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Elsewhere in the county, Sherwood Forest Hospitals (SFH), which runs King's Mill Newark and Mansfield Community hospitals, recorded 9,512 patient safety incidents, resulting in 14 deaths. Three patients died the year before, after 7,387 patient safety incidents.
In Nottingham, instances of patients being harmed most commonly arose in relation to implementing care and monitoring patients - they accounted for 40 percent of all incidents. Second most common was medication (10 per cent), followed by patient accidents (8.5 per cent).
Across England, 689,745 incidents resulted in harm to patients, equating to 1,890 every day. Deaths totalled 5,803. Nottinghamshire Live has contacted NUH for comment.
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