ENT department at UMC Utrecht again discredited

The kids got jobs a second internal hearing aid, but it did so bad it had to be done the operation in Rotterdam.

The patients were between 6 and 18 years. The doctors who operated them had not spoken before them. In addition, do not use the standard surgical technique, reports Zembla .

In a report on the failed operations requires the emergency committee of the UMC "The interventions are (under limited supervision) performed by less experienced surgeons and this may have contributed to a sub-optimal result."

no control

Further, the report says: "In the UMC Utrecht chose patients only a day before the operation to take over treatment and then to delegate back to the post-operative follow-up to Rotterdam." That choice was made ​​by the then head of department Professor Grolman.

For the follow-up was not sufficient capacity in Utrecht. "The competent surgeons who performed the implants have had no say in the way in which care was organized around the patient."

The five patients who failed in the operation, were part of a group of nine patients who were referred by the end of 2014 the Erasmus MC. That Rotterdam hospital had when the maximum number of internal hearing aids placed the insurers would reimburse.

To let patients unnecessarily waiting, patients were referred to the UMC Utrecht. That hospital still had room to carry out the operations that year.

regret

Rotterdam ENT specialist Marc van der Schroeff regrets the referrals. "I feel like I've done a disservice to my patients," he said in the broadcast. Van der Schroeff did not advance with his colleagues from Utrecht asked which surgical technique would be applied on the referred patients.

In the sequel Erasmus MC conducts such operations always yourself. If necessary other adult patients refused to report for the first time at the hospital.

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Reaction UMC Utrecht

UMC Utrecht Zemlya declined to interview for the camera. The hospital continued yesterday called aresponse on his website. "On Wednesday, March 2nd the Zembla TV program pays attention again to the UMC Utrecht. The business which brings the program is expected to screen his poignant and touch us deeply."

Chairman Margaret Schneider said in the statement include: "Our concern is only good as our patients experience as well." Furthermore, the hospital announced that the "stone unturned wants." UMC also promises: "We will be the improvement that emerged from the study (Inspection) implement as soon as possible."

UMC Utrecht, according to the statement already begun implementing improvements. "The quality has improved, it is now easier for employees to report possible abuses. The emergency committee has been strengthened and guidelines when an incident should be reported to the Health Care Inspectorate, be clearer."

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Calamities

The ENT Department at UMC Utrecht came late last year even though negative news because it had failed to report a number of disasters in the inspection. The Healthcare Inspectorate then launched an investigation and Professor Grolman had gone as department head . Two ENT doctors were on leave sent.

In the broadcast tonight are also problems in another department of the UMC Utrecht discussed. With three very young children are not skull surgery went well. That the hospital has not reported to the inspection. That's what the parents do, and was forced to stop the UMC Utrecht in June 2015 to carry out this type of operation.

Erasmus MC and the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre was designated as the only centers for these operations, but UMC Utrecht they still carried out.

Zembla, Wednesday, March 2, 21:15 pm, VARA NPO 2

Source: http://nos.nl/ Photo: Reuters