News Releases
February 2001
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Inquiry UpdateThe Inquiry welcomes the publication of the Chief Medical Officer’s (CMO) Report: ‘The Removal, Retention and Use of Human Organs and Tissue from Post-mortem Examination’, published on January 30th 2001. Last year, in response to a request from the CMO, the BRI Inquiry Panel completed their study on this matter: ‘Removal and retention of human material’,* published in May 2000. This report was brought forward so that the CMO was able to consider the BRI Inquiry’s recommendations before putting his own recommendations to the Secretary of State. The Inquiry Panel were pleased to see this week that many of their recommendations had been taken into account and incorporated into the CMO’s Report. The BRI Inquiry Panel do not expect to revisit this subject in their Final Report. The preparation and publication of the Inquiry’s interim report on human material occupied the Inquiry for some considerable time. Consequently, the timetable for completion of the Inquiry’s Final Report has had to be adjusted. The Inquiry is now on schedule to complete all stages in the preparation of its Final Report by the end of March 2001. The timing of publication of the Final Report is a matter to be arranged between the Inquiry and government. The Secretary of State for Health will require time to consider his response, and arrangements will need to be made whereby he may present the Final Report to Parliament. The Final Report will address the Inquiry’s Terms of Reference as set out by the Secretary of State in June 1998: ‘To inquire into the management of the care of children receiving complex cardiac surgical services at the Bristol Royal Infirmary between 1984 and 1995 and relevant related issues; to make findings as to the adequacy of the services provided; to establish what action was taken both within and outside the hospital to deal with concerns raised about the surgery and to identify any failure to take appropriate action promptly; to reach conclusions from these events and to make recommendations which could help to secure high quality care across the NHS.’ The Final Report will have two principal sections. Section 1 will consider paediatric cardiac surgical services in Bristol during the years 1984-1995, covering all of the issues included in the Inquiry’s Issues List, published in January 1999.* Section 2 will respond to the last element of the Terms of Reference: “to make recommendations which could help to secure high quality care across the NHS”. The Final Report will contain a number of substantial annexes, including a detailed account of the Bristol evidence, and expert and other commissioned papers. * The BRI Inquiry’s Interim Report ‘Removal and retention of human material’ and the Issues List, are available on the Inquiry’s website at www.bristol-inquiry.org.uk 08 February 2001 BRI 01-12 (Information Note) Response to media speculation - 22nd February 2001 In response to remarks made in the media recently (not least in Private Eye) regarding the completion and publication of the Bristol Royal Infirmary Public Inquiry Report, the Inquiry would like to state categorically ‘on the record’ that
22nd February 2001 For information about the work of the Inquiry: please contact Becky Jarvis, Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry, tel (Office): 0117 938 8716; (Mobile): 0777 575 4204
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