Today, it has struck off two of them, Mr Wisheart and Dr Roylance, and censured Dr Dhasmana. The inquiry will be chaired by Professor Ian Kennedy, professor of health law, ethics and policy at University College London. He is an eminent lawyer and an expert in medical, legal and ethical issues. He has written extensively on problems arising from the care of severely disabled new-born babies. He has chaired the Expert Advisory Group on ethics of xenotransplantation and the Advisory Group on rabies and quarantine.
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I intend to announce the other members of the inquiry and its detailed terms of reference very soon. Today I can make it clear that the inquiry will examine all aspects of what went wrong at Bristol. It will identify any professional, management and organisational failures and make recommendations to safeguard patients and their families in the future. I have had three meetings with the representatives of parents of children who died or suffered brain damage following heart surgery at Bristol Royal Infirmary. We owe it to them to get to the bottom of what went wrong in Bristol - that all the facts are exposed and responsibility is identified.