Submitted on Wednesday 6th January 2016
Rejected on Friday 1st April 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Serious lack of staff, funding and over crowding at Medway Hospital.
Surgeons operating on the wrong part of the body and foreign objects left inside patients after surgery are among the serious incidents which took place at Medway Maritime Hospital last year.
The hospital in Gillingham reported 68 "serious untoward incidents"
In another case, a patient was incorrectly given the drug methotrexate, which is widely used to treat rheumatoid arthritis but also given to cancer patients in much higher doses as a chemotherapy drug to treat cancers like leukaemia.
There were also three maternal deaths, 22 slips, trips and falls, seven cases of pressure ulcers, and four cases of care which fell below standard.
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