Testicle removal blunder among 1,100 NHS 'never events'

'Disgraceful' catalogue of errors includes surgeons removing one patient's fallopian tubes by mistake

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More than 1,000 NHS patients in England have suffered from medical mistakes so serious they never should have happened in the last four years, according to new analysis.

The blunders, described by NHS as "never events", include operations on the wrong patient and the wrong limb, a woman having her fallopian tubes removed instead of her appendix and "foreign objects" being left inside patients.

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