Never events are defined by the CQC as serious, largely preventable incidents which should not happen.
The Royal Devon and Exeter, Northern Devon Healthcare and South Devon Healthcare trusts each reported two never events.
These are the only never events ever reported by the South Devon trust.
Ian Cohen, a medical negligence solicitor and head of medical negligence at Goodmans Law, based in Liverpool, said the whole system of reporting "never events" was flawed.
The so-called "never events" included three at Plymouth's Derriford Hospital.
The Department of Health says never events are "unacceptable".
Last year, Derriford Hospital was warned by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) that it must improve safety or risk prosecution after six never events within a year, including swabs being left in four patients.
He argued that hospitals have no incentive to report "never events" because they may have to reimburse the cost of the procedure to the NHS as well as paying for the patients' long-term care.
Last month, health watchdog Monitor said it was taking action against the Cambridgeshire NHS trust after eight "never events" - instances which are never supposed to happen - had occurred between September 2011 and August.
In November, regulator Monitor found the trust in "significant breach of its terms of authorisation" due to poor financial performance, multiple occurrences of 'never events' - including where wrong patients were operated on - and a failure to improve waiting times.
Such events occur, he says, because the rules we infer from the observation of events never contain the full range of possibilities.
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But even if that chain of events never occurs, some analysts believe the U.S. is headed for a recession, or severe slowdown, in 1998, all on its own.
"These things tend to never stay isolated events, " he said.
The large size of the trial has led to concerns that the study will never collect enough events, or that it could drag on for years until after Zetia's patent expires in 2016.
Of course, these estimates on the economic impact of sporting events are never precise.
Robertson has reached the quarter-final stage in six ranking events but never been further.
As an American, I will never forget the tragic events that occurred on September 11, 2001.
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Those directly hurt or whose loved ones were killed in these events may never be the same.
Shane Todd's suicide note spoke of family events that never happened, they say.
Jim was a faithful champion of these events and never missed a conference on digital storage if he could help it.
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We had about 75% of his portfolio in bonds and were very conservative with him but he never really got over those events.
Never could I have imagined the events that would open my eyes, fill my heart and change my life.
But most importantly, I realized that the man I was when these events took place could never have written Brother John.
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He insists that without understanding the true topography and layout of the battlefield, historians can never fully gain an insight into events from the past.
But the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has never had a problem with highly improbable events.
But in a rather comical turn of events, the second plane never left the gate.
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