Surgical swabs left inside four patients at Plymouth’s Derriford Hospital
SURGICAL swabs have been left inside four patients during the past year, Derriford Hospital has recorded.
Patient representatives and medical chiefs said the errors are "unacceptable" and called for a "change in culture" to prevent further blunders.
The mistakes are revealed in an internal report outlining dozens of 'serious incidents' at Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust within 12 months.
It comes after the hospital revised theatre policy following the death of a patient in 2008.
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