Nearly 100 people and 4000 people were harmed after the equipment defects NHS In the past three years, calls for more government funding to upgrade broken and old medical devices.
The fibrillation remover advised paramedics not to manage a shock, an emergency warning system on a newborn wing, and the camera was on a dark stumbling device only three failures that patients died.
It is included in the numbers issued for the first time by NHS England This was harmful to patients after 3,915 equipment malfunction – with 87 deaths – since 2022.
“These are horrific statistics,” said Paul Weng, the chief executive of the work against medical incidents.
“The size of the damage and loss of lives resulting from the failure of the basic equipment and job offers in a flagrant condition on the scale of the tragedy that resulted from years of lack of funding in NHS.”
The Labor Party has pledged to double the number of light scanners in English hospitals throughout the parliament, and Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, is expected to announce a large additional capital of NHS in reviewing spending for this week.
The vast majority of accidents, recorded by doctors and nurses when the device was broken, is not suitable for use or did not lead as expected, caused a decrease in the level of damage. This means that the patients were unlikely to need more treatment, exceeding the changes of clothing or short sessions of medicine by mouth.
There were 522 incidents of moderate damage, as the patient’s independence could be limited for up to six months. Meanwhile, in addition to the 87 deaths, 68 patients were severely harmful – which means that they could have received permanent damage to the accident, or had an average life expectancy.
It is likely that the latest numbers are higher, such as A new safety system It was only obligatory for NHS institutions since September 2023, and many incidents on the system are currently missing information about the resulting damage.
The malfunction of the fibrillation removal was the most likely accident that followed death – with the recording of 28. The problems of breathing equipment and tubes that fail to perform as expected to 12 deaths and 12 patients were severely harmful. The defective family, mattresses or side bars caused 40 moderate injuries, and at least one death when a patient with a careful care of the ground slipped and died.
Matthew Taylor, CEO of NHS Confedervation, said:
“Although the additional investment that the government pledged was a welcome start, without sufficient capital financing, it will be difficult for NHS to maintain the criteria that patients really expect and submit the government “Change Plan” He promised to cut waiting times. “
A separate guardianship analysis in the Hospital Council papers detailed how patients all over the country continue to danger through the wrong or indirect equipment.
ASHFord and Stford and ST Peter Trust in Surrey registered a “extremist” risk in April due to the lack of preservation of the physical environment and the update of equipment.
In Croydon Health Services NHS TRUST, Board papers From March Detailed how CT radiology equipment inspections strongly affect the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. An internal emergency connection has also been broken in the main operating theaters, with writing a work case to replace the cost of about 60,000 pounds.
Board Papers from Barts Trust in London recorded the risk of cancellation or clinically important delays to the heart, lung, kidneys and stem cells due to the obsessive diagnostic equipment in March.
In Royal London and Mile End Hospitals (also part of Barts), employees are left unable to use some brain scanning equipment – they are still working on Windows 7 – because doing so will be a threat to cybersecurity. At Whipps Cross in London, employees have reported delay in care and possible harm to children due to the age and condition of repairing the fleet of ventilation devices in the newborns.
At least 10,000 diagnostic devices from only one of the main suppliers in NHS were over the age of manufacturers at the end of March 2024, and at least 4000 time. This result – obtained by requesting freedom of information from a preliminary model of the NHS database scheduled to be launched next year and independently verified by the guardian – relates to one of the hundreds of manufacturers, which means that the real range of the problem is likely to be greater.
Health service guidelines said that the funds must work to completely eliminate the accumulation of diagnostic equipment that exceeds 10 years by April this year.
The numbers come after years of investing in NHS infrastructure, with both buildings and equipment in urgent need of repair. The reform bill facing the health service to make its property suitable for more than 4.5 billion pounds in 2012-13 to 13.8 billion pounds in 2023-24. At least 2.7 billion pounds of these reforms has been classified as “highly dangerous” because they pose a threat to people.
Last fall, the new Labor Party government increased the NHS budget by 3.1 billion pounds, for the next year and water. The NHS Federation called on the advisor to adhere to no less than 3.3 billion pounds of additional pounds of capital financing every year in reviewing spending next week, as well as highlighting a new and improved model for private investment in the health service that “learns lessons” from PFI (the principle of special financing).
A NHS spokesman said it recently provided a safety framework and was increasing investment in replacement machines, as it invested more than 245 million pounds since 2020 in new diagnostic equipment. They said: “NHS employees work with great effort to maintain patients’ safety, but we know that there is more to do it to provide the best possible care.”
A spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare said: “The safety of patients is very important, and we are taking urgent measures to reform and rebuild our property in the hospital,” said a spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare.
“I left the NHS buildings and equipment that we inherited to collapse after years of harm and neglect, but we are determined to turn this through our plan to change.
“We will increase capital spending by 1.8 billion pounds to 13.6 billion pounds in the next year, which represents the highest budget for the real capital since 2010, except for the epidemic.”
