Patient given wrong donor kidney - The Telegraph 21st January 2008

Monday, January 21, 2008

A kidney transplant operation had to be aborted after a hospital computer blunder meant doctors had the wrong blood type for the patient. In what was believed to be the first mistake of its kind in a British hospital, the transplanted organ had to be removed after just a few hours. The error could have led to the organ being rejected and even the death of the patient. The incident will raise further concerns over plans to upload NHS data on to a single computer database.

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