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Paediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery: annual statistical summaries

26 The numbers of cardiac operations carried out and the numbers of deaths, of both adult and child patients, were compiled by Mr Wisheart into an annual statistical summary. He explained: `... This did not happen right at the beginning, but it began early on and evolved to the point where each year I published an annual - what I have called a "statistical summary". ... The summaries that I am referring to were aggregated and I continued to produce those up until, I think, 1992.' [23] A copy of the data was sent to individual consultant cardiac surgeons working in the cardiac unit. The figures also appeared in the three Annual Reports of the paediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery services which were produced for the years 1987, 1988 and 1989/90 respectively. Mr Dhasmana stated that, for the years 1993/94 and 1994/95, copies of the annual data were also submitted to the directorate's audit co-ordinator for the particular year. [24]

Footnotes

[23] T41 p.63 Mr Wisheart

[24] WIT 0084 0024 Mr Dhasmana