The Business Desk has featured NGFS funding success and has helped to highlight the quest to end ‘Never Events’.
The misplacement of a nasogastric tube into the lung is known as a ‘never event’ in the NHS, which means that it is wholly preventable if current national guidance is followed properly, but it is still surprisingly common.
NGFS has developed a device called DoubleCHEK to prevent the misplacement of feeding tubes into the lungs, inspired by founder George Gallagher who was hospitalised as a youngster. The recent funding of £750,000 will take us that step closer to achieving to stop ‘Never Events’ from occurring.
