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The financial management of the budget for Paediatric CardiacSurgical Services, 1984-1990

121 As set out earlier paediatric cardiac surgical services during the period 1984/91 were part of two separate management sub-units within the B&WDHA. The seven budget books, which cover this period, provided to the Inquiry by Mr Nix, do not separately identify the financial allocations made to the various services provided in the sub units. It is not possible to identify how the funding associated with NICS (from the SRS) was distributed to the different components of the paediatric cardiac surgical service. The funding is not separately identified as income coming into the Central Unit, nor is it separately identified in the narrative that precedes the financial allocations. Rather, the SRS funding was added to the general sum of the District's funding.

122 Within the Central Unit's budget, the only specific reference to cardiac surgical services is to cardiac perfusion. This is in the 1985/1986 Budget Book, which shows three entries:

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