The mistake meant that ventilation in critical care rooms was insufficient and cost £16 million to rectifyThe opening of a major children’s hospital was delayed by safety fears due to a copy-and-paste error in a spreadsheet which was not spotted for years, according to a new report. The £150 million Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh was due to open in July 2019, but at the last minute it was discovered the ventilation in critical care did not meet set standards. A review commissioned by NHS Lothian and published today found that an “environmental matrix” spreadsheet in 2012 wrongly stated the air change rate in critical care rooms should be four changes per hour, rather than ten. The report attributes this to “human error in copying across the four-bedded room generic ventilation criteria into the critical care room

Source: The Times August 26, 2020 16:03 UTC