{"id":317702,"date":"2025-08-04T17:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/317702\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T17:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:31:09","slug":"great-ormond-street-hospital-surgeons-used-torches-in-power-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/317702\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Ormond Street Hospital surgeons used torches in power cut"},"content":{"rendered":"

A spokesperson for GOSH said: “We have a very active annual preventative maintenance programme across our estate, including in theatres but as with most hospitals, on occasion some parts of our estate need urgent attention for safety reasons.”<\/p>\n

The trust said the power cut incident happened in 2023, as the hospital experienced “a series of intermittent power outages due to a design fault within the electrical system.”<\/p>\n

This was the only surgery under way at the time and a decision was taken to stop the operation and carry out the surgery at a later date.<\/p>\n

The patient is “doing well”, the trust added.<\/p>\n

The assessments, carried out in October, followed a review into poor care provided by Yaser Jabbar<\/a>, a former paediatric lower limb surgeon at the trust.<\/p>\n

Mr Jabbar left the hospital in 2023 after a report by the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) found some of the surgery had been “inappropriate” and “incorrect”.<\/p>\n

Great Ormond Street, which treats 76,000 children each year, was rated “good” overall.<\/p>\n

Inspectors found trust as “good,” but said the level of governance was “inconsistent” in some speciality areas.<\/p>\n

Staff in several parts of the hospital were not clear about who was responsible for clinical care – a concern previously raised by a Royal College of Surgeons review – the CQC said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spokesperson for GOSH said: “We have a very active annual preventative maintenance programme across our estate, including…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-317702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114971691156810848","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}