Sir Bruce, the medical director of the NHS, announced the inquiry following an emotional three-hour meeting on Friday with 7 families whose children either died or have been left significantly unwell following therapy in Bristol.
Yesterday, Faye Valentine, the mother of 7-12 months-outdated Luke Jenkins who died just days right after he was moved out of intensive care following heart surgical treatment at BCH mentioned: “We are extremely glad to see Sir Bruce Keogh consider action and recognise our issues.”
Mrs Valentine, 28, from Cardiff extra: “Sir Ian Kennedy carried out the prior evaluation at Bristol when several young children died and suffered for the duration of the 1990′s and his findings and recommendations did not seem to be carried out so we hope with his information and the cooperation of Sir Bruce’s group, the families involved and the hospital that we can all achieve our aim of producing confident Bristol children’s hospital is protected for future sufferers.
“We are worried that the hospital have been in denial, specifically the management as there are some exceptional personnel that do work there, but absolutely everyone is being let down. We just hope that now the spotlight has been positioned further on them that they will stand up and realise they need to carry out action programs and recommendations that may come out of this review.”
Another bereaved mother or father, Steve Turner whose four-year-old son Sean died during the following-care at the children’s hospital following corrective heart surgical treatment in March 2012, tweeted: However Bristol Children’s Hospital’s culture has slipped back the wrong way. Let’s hope Ian Kennedy can pull it up by its boots.”
Final yr it emerged around 10 families have been believed to be taking legal action against the believe in, including seven whose kids died following currently being handled at the hospital.
Previously some had known as for a public inquiry into what they claimed to be “chronically low requirements”.
A spokesman for University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Believe in mentioned it welcomed the assessment.
A spokesperson stated: “The Trust remains troubled that families whose youngsters we have cared for continue to have concerns about the care provided regardless of our attempts to reply to these issues. We hope that the meeting this week will aid to resolve the families’ excellent issues or highlight methods in which the Believe in can reply further and we welcome the opportunity to take into account feedback from the meeting.
“We have learnt a lot from the experiences of the families meeting right now and have created a lot of changes in places in which shortcomings have been highlighted, specifically in how workers communicate with dad and mom.”
Bristol Children"s Hospital "still in denial" about deaths, say parents
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