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Reflecting on Redfern: What can we learn from the Alder Hey story?
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In 1998 the General Medical Council (GMC) charged two Bristol
surgeons and their medical director with misconduct on the grounds that
they had failed to recognise and act upon their poor outcome results.1 In September 1999, the enquiry set up to
investigate the events at Bristol heard evidence from Professor Robert
Anderson. He told the panel that a collection of hearts was housed at
the Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool and that many other hospitals had
collections of organs for research purposes. His purpose was to explain
how these had improved the results of paediatric cardiac surgery,2 but the Liverpool Echo and the national press
picked up the story and presented it as a scandal. The Alder Hey
Hospital was overwhelmed with enquiries from anxious and angry parents. Accounts of post mortem organ removal, examination and retention, which
the medical profession had considered normal practice, rapidly became
intertwined with the unprofessional and
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