On: Post-surgical deaths in Scotland drop by a third, attributed to a checklist

[DanBC]

The English NHS was dealing with about one million patients every 36 hours. https://www.england.nhs.uk/ They were doing over 8 million surgeries per year when the checklist was introduced.

For 2016/2017 the summary of "never events" is here: https://improvement.nhs.uk/documents/2347/Never_Events_1_Apr...

There were 189 wrong site surgeries, and 114 retained foreign object post surgery.

That's not good enough, but it's not terrible.

The month by month data is here: https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/never-events-data/

I have a comment about the regulatory framework (in England) here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19683366