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The audit and review of the paediatric cardiac surgical services in Bristol
413 The Inquiry heard evidence that, during the period of the Inquiry's Terms of Reference, various types of meetings were held in Bristol in order to review results in paediatric cardiac surgery.
`The practice of audit within paediatric cardiac surgery was set up by the clinicians in that area and it was done on the basis of their interest, enthusiasm and commitment, not because of any management requirement ... The practice evolved and developed from the years prior to 1984 and throughout the period [of the Inquiry's Terms of Reference]'. [497]
415 These meetings fell into four main categories: cardiac surgical audit, departmental audit, clinico-pathological meetings and evening meetings.
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[497] WIT 0120 0392 Mr Wisheart