Retained Objects Post Procedure - FOI Response Register

FoI Number
2024-444
Subject
Retained Objects Post Procedure
Date Received
25/10/2024
Request and Response
  1. How many incidents of a retained foreign object post-procedure were logged by your Health Board in the past five years?

By ‘retained foreign object post procedure’, I refer to retained guide wires, mouth props, surgical instruments, needles, vaginal swabs, throat packs, etc.

Nil

  1. Please break down this information by:
  • The retained item.
  • The financial year, covering April 1st - March 31st (2019/20, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25).

N/A

  1. For the latter, please provide information from April 1st to September 30th 2024.

N/A