The English NHS was dealing with about one million patients every 36 hours. https://www.england.nhs.uk/ https://www.england.nhs.uk/ They were doing over 8 mill

The English NHS was dealing with about one million patients every 36 hours. https://www.england.nhs.uk/ 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_April_2016_-_31_March_2017_FINAL_v2.pdf 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/ 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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19683366