Final Report > Chapter 7: The Audit and Monitoring of the Paediatric Cardiac Surgical Service in Bristol > How the clinicians in Bristol reviewed paediatric cardiac surgery > The Annual Reports on paediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery
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The Annual Reports on paediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery
27 As we have said, there were three Annual Reports on paediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery (for the years 1987, 1988 and 1989/90). The reports contained tables of the results of open and closed surgery for congenital heart disease in patients under and over 1 year of age, and showed the numbers of deaths and the rate of mortality. Dr Joffe, speaking of the 1988 report, told the Inquiry: `The idea was to send the reports to the then District Health Authority, both the local one and the peripheral centres, particularly to the paediatricians around the region with whom we were related. ... It was freely available to members of the cardiology team.' [25] Dr Jordan's recollection was: `The consumption [of the 1987 report] was basically internal and it went I think to the management of the Children's Hospital and to the various people concerned. ... I think we did actually send the one in 1987 out much more widely ... but my recollection is that we did not send subsequent ones out.' [26]
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