{"id":785,"date":"2016-06-22T16:47:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T15:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/?p=785"},"modified":"2021-06-22T15:37:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T14:37:30","slug":"bristol-childrens-hospital-plotted-to-cover-up-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/bristol-childrens-hospital-plotted-to-cover-up-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Children\u2019s Hospital Plotted To Cover-Up Mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bristol Children\u2019s Hospital has been heavily criticised after consultants plotted to delete a voice recording, in which they admitted errors could have contributed to a baby\u2019s death.<\/span><\/p>\n

Benjamin Condon was born prematurely in February 2014. He was released from hospital two months later, but after three days developed a severe cough. <\/span><\/p>\n

His parents, Allyn and Jenny, took him to Weston General Hospital where he was then transferred to Bristol Children\u2019s Hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ben was diagnosed with a respiratory virus, but while in hospital he also picked up a bacterial infection that required antibiotics. <\/span><\/p>\n

Sadly treatment was significantly delayed and he died of sepsis and organ failure, aged just eight weeks old. <\/span><\/p>\n

At the time his parents were not told of this second infection, and were instead told their son had died of a cold-like virus. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIncorrect information\u201d<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

When they eventually discovered the truth two months later, they requested a meeting with the hospital. <\/span><\/p>\n

They met with two consultants and one hospital manager on 22 July 2014, during which they openly recorded the discussion on their mobile phone. <\/span><\/p>\n

During a break in the meeting, Allyn and Jenny stepped outside but left their phone recording on the table. <\/span><\/p>\n

The clinicians continued to discuss the care Ben received, admitting that his parents had been given \u201cincorrect information\u201d and saying they struggled to see \u201cwhy he wasn\u2019t given antibiotics\u201d earlier. <\/span><\/p>\n

They then realise their admissions have been taped and discuss deleting it, both from their own recording device and from the mobile phone. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat could get us in to difficulty\u201d<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

One consultant is heard saying \u201cis there any possibility of taking off that last bit\u2026I just forgot that it was still recording and\u2026that could get us in to difficulty.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In the end the recording was not deleted, but Allyn and Jenny were not told of the conversation and only discovered the cover-up when they listened back to the recording.<\/span><\/p>\n

The incident led to an independent report being commissioned by hospital bosses. The report, which was recently published, criticised the hospital for its actions. It read:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Trust failed to share important findings with the parents and give definite answers to the parent\u2019s questions. There was a delay in the complaint investigations getting underway.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a failure to recognise one of the most serious allegations being made by the parents \u2013 why a clinician would want a conversation deleted and why a senior manager would agree to do it \u2013 irrespective of whether any deletion actually happened.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Ben\u2019s father said he was pleased with the outcome of the report, but the hospital needs to \u201cinvestigate the fact that Ben\u2019s death was covered up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Speak to a solicitor<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

If you would like to speak to a medical negligence solicitor, please get in touch with us today.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bristol Children\u2019s Hospital has been heavily criticised after consultants plotted to delete a voice recording, in which they admitted errors could have contributed to a baby\u2019s death. Benjamin Condon was born prematurely in February 2014. He was released from hospital two months later, but after three days developed a severe cough. His parents, Allyn and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,557],"tags":[816,870,869,193,158],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhs-complaints","category-sepsis-2","tag-baby-death","tag-baby-sepsis-death","tag-ben-condon","tag-bristol-childrens-hospital","tag-hospital-cover-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}