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Learning from Bristol: the Department of Health's response to the Report of the Public Inquiry into children's heart surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary 1984-1995

  • Document type:
    Publication
  • Author:
    Department of Health
  • Published date:
    17 January 2002
  • Primary audience:
    Professionals
  • Product number:
    ISBN 0 10 153632 1
  • Gateway reference:
    2002
  • Series number:
    Cm 5363
  • Pages:
    183
  • Copyright holder:
    Crown

This document summarises the Governments response to the report on children's heart surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. The executive summary is also available below, independently from the full document.

In June 1998, the then Secretary of State for Health, the Right Honourable Frank Dobson MP, announced the establishment of an inquiry into the management of the care of children receiving complex cardiac surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary (BRI) between 1984 and 1995.

The Inquiry was asked not only to reach conclusions about the events at Bristol, but also to make recommendations, drawn from its analysis of those events, which could help secure high quality care across the NHS.

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