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A new mother was mistakenly fitted with a contraceptive coil in a surgery mix-up at an NHS hospital in Wales, it has been revealed. 

The contraceptive blunder came just minutes after the woman had a baby by C-section in the hospital.

Labour-run NHS Wales described the coil mix-up at the Betsi Cadwaladr health board in North Wales as a 'never event'.

It was described as a 'serious, largely preventable patient safety incident that should not have occurred if preventative measures had been implemented'.

The health board outlined how a patient had a coil - an intrauterine device which prevents pregnancy - inserted after undergoing a Caesarean section.

It was described in the report as 'wrong procedure' planned for a different patient understood to have been admitted to Ysbyty Gwynedd hospital in Bangor. But a mistake had been made after the 'list order was changed due to the increase in category for this patient'.

The coil blunder was one of three 'never events' for the

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