Wednesday, February 18, 2009

'We ran out of shavers': Doctors'extraordinary excuses for axing 1,000 NHS operations a week

More than 1,000 NHS operations are being cancelled at the last minute each week because of avoidable mistakes at hospitals. Lost medical records, broken equipment and a lack of beds were among the excuses given to patients whose surgery was called off.

(Snip) a Freedom of Information request, revealed that the number of operations cancelled for non-clinical reasons in 2007/08 was 57,382 ...

[This is government run health care.]

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