Hospital will review babies' heart surgery

From: The Independent - London | Date: August 6, 1999| Author: Ian Herbert Northern Correspondent | Copyright information

A HOSPITAL that specialises in heart surgery for babies told parents yesterday it would review any paediatric case from the Eighties amid doubts over its performance during that decade.

The Freeman in Newcastle upon Tyne emerged as a hospital with a questionable paediatric-cardiac unit record in evidence from Sir Terence English, a former Department of Health heart surgery advisory committee member, to the Bristol Royal Infirmary public inquiry.

"Bristol, Newcastle, Harefield and...

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