 requests, published by the NHS suggests 5,430 patients applied for compensation claims between 2019 and 2021, after being misdiagnosed in hospital. However, this number is unlikely to reflect the true extent of misdiagnosis. This is because not every patient will claim and this number only accounts for cases within the NHS - misdiagnosis is no less likely to occur in private hospitals. Parkinson's misdiagnosis Parkinson's disease is the fastest growing neurodegenerative condition in the world with 145,000 Brits are currently living with it. It's among one of the conditions which is most commonly misdiagnosed, despite being so prevalent, according to Parkinson's UK , A study carried out by the charity found that 26 per cent patients are misdiagnosed with a different condition before receiving the correct Parkinson's diagnosis. Almost half of these patients (48 per cent) were given the wrong treatment, while 36 per cent received medication that was not needed and 6 per cent underwent unnecessary operations or procedures. Out of the patients that received unnecessary treatment, over a third (34 per cent) reported that as a result of the unnecessary treatment, their health got worse. It is important that Parkinson's is diagnosed quick){kind=link}
MORE than 5,000 Brits were misdiagnosed in NHS hospitals last year, new data reveals.
Diagnostic errors are a known occurrence in healthcare and can sometimes have very tragic effects.
Some of the most commonly misdiagnosed conditions are heart attacks, Parkinson’s and strokes.
Yet so far, there is little data available which quantifies misdiagnoses in UK in terms of deaths and permanent disability.
This means the full scale of medical mistakes is hugely underestimated, according to a 2015 report by the National Academy of Medicine.