Error causes 800 patients to be wrongly removed from waiting list

A trust is carrying out a review after hundreds of patients were wrongly removed from the waiting list and potentially missed out on treatment.

York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust told HSJ that roughly 800 patients of its referral to treatment waiting list, were affected.

A serious incident was declared after it emerged some patients “had their referral to treat clocks stopped erroneously, resulting in patients not receiving treatment”, according to a report to the trust board.

The trust said reviews were under way but had not yet identified any cases of “moderate or significant clinical harm”, although it admitted some patients had been significantly delayed.

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Source: HSJ, 2 June 2023