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The anaesthetists: Dr Bolsin

28 Dr Bolsin began to gather data about the PCS service in 1989. In 1991 he showed them to Professor Prys-Roberts, Professor of Anaesthesia at the Bristol University Medical School (and later President of the Royal College of Anaesthetists 1994-1997). Professor Prys-Roberts advised him to collect more data before reaching any view. In the summer of 1991 Dr Bolsin circulated minutes of a meeting between the anaesthetists, the surgeons and the cardiologists, which included reference to an audit of the outcomes in children undergoing PCS. Later that same year, Dr Bolsin was helped by Dr Black, a senior lecturer in anaesthesia from the University of Bristol and they began to compile and collate data. In early 1992 Dr Bolsin again saw Professor Prys-Roberts with handwritten data. Dr Bolsin was advised to get further data which could then be shared with others. Dr Bolsin then worked with Dr Black to produce data which were shown to colleagues in the Department of Anaesthesia in the spring of 1993 in the form of a report [27] `Analysis of Paediatric Cardiac Mortality Data from UBHT 1990-92'. Dr Bolsin then showed his data to an ever-widening group, but not to Mr Wisheart or Mr Dhasmana.

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[27] UBHT 0061 0080