Rat found in operating theatre at King's Mill Hospital
Pest controllers were called into a Notts hospital after a rat was found in an operating theatre.
Around 40 operations were cancelled at King's Mill Hospital when the rodent made its way into the room last Tuesday night.
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King's Mill Hospital
Hospital bosses have assured patients there is no need for concern.
Karen Tomlinson, Director of Operations said: “We are proud of our services and the extremely high quality of care we offer to our patients, so we were extremely shocked to learn that there was evidence of a rodent having entered a decommissioned operating theatre during the night, at a time when the department was not in use.
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“As soon as we became aware of this fact the following morning, we immediately took steps to thoroughly clean and sterilise the entire theatre area and called in external pest control experts to completely eradicate the problem.
“Whilst this work was underway, all surgical procedures were halted for one day and just over 40 patients had their operations rearranged. We have apologised to any patients affected for the inconvenience caused.
“I would like to reassure any concerned patient or relative that this was a minor, one-off incident that occurred over a week ago. We took immediate and comprehensive action to rectify matters and to restore services with the minimum of disruption. We are fully operational again. There is no cause for concern.”
The incident is the latest in a series of bad news for the debt-ridden hospital, part of the Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Tracey Doucet, chair of the trust, stood down at the beginning of October. Health watchdog Monitor said in September that it would act over the hospital's increasing debt, and said it was concerned "extremely concerned by the very serious issues facing the trust".
Comments
by qzectbum
Tuesday, November 06 2012, 8:14PM
“Oh dear. Kings Mill has a long history of poor management and poor financial controls even before the Emperor's new PFI buildings had their foundations laid.
The place is long overdue a management structure which puts patient care and staff welfare above their own career scrabble to the top. It needs talent, and a genuine desire to do the right thing, not bunch of spineless, backstabbing yes men.”
by Neo_MadBadger
Tuesday, November 06 2012, 7:09PM
“I hope that the rat had scrubbed-up. Either way, the poor blighter probably now has MSRA.”
by grammamamma
Tuesday, November 06 2012, 6:18PM
“What a silly idea Ted. There could be all sorts of chemicals around that could hurt the little doggies.”
by Ted_Notts
Tuesday, November 06 2012, 4:50PM
“I'm expecting Grammanmamma (or whatever her name is) to come on here later and suggest the hospital authorities release a pack of terriers to keep the rat population down.”
by royclarke
Tuesday, November 06 2012, 4:37PM
“I've recently had an operation at Kings Mill and whilst the operation wasn't a pleasant one I can't fault the staff or the hygiene of the hospital. Rats are more common than you know and anyone of us could wake up tomorrow and find one in our home.”
by SlickSpoons
Tuesday, November 06 2012, 4:31PM
“Perhaps it required urgent medical treatment?!
People on here are far too quick to judge!”
by WASPS
Tuesday, November 06 2012, 3:48PM
“It must have escaped from Hyson Green.”
by smshogun
Tuesday, November 06 2012, 3:23PM
“I hate to state the obvious but if the operating theatre was decommissioned then why would they have to cancel any operations. The decommissioned operating theatres are nowhere near the currently used ones.”
by DunkirkPie
Tuesday, November 06 2012, 3:12PM
“Oh dear, yet another bad news story about Kings Mill. They seem to have lurched from one disaster to another for as long as I can remember. Still, at least it gives the NHS-obsessed BBC local news something to talk about. I reckon the first story on the 10.30 bulletin is about hospitals at least 50% of the time.”
by iwilltellit
Tuesday, November 06 2012, 3:10PM
“This is what comes of using agency workers or contract cleaners rather than NHS staff.”