Stephen Bolsin

Описание: As a new consultant anesthetist at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bolsin identified that too many babies were dying during heart surgery. He spent the next six years exposing the high mortality rates and attempting to improve the service. Bolsin's actions significantly reduced high death rates for children’s heart surgery in The Bristol Royal Infirmary. His whistleblow instigated clinical reform within the NHS and to health care in Australia, New Zealand. Yet he still found himself unemployable in the UK and immigrated to Australia. Hear his full story here.

In 1989, as a new consultant anesthetist at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bolsin identified that too many babies were dying during heart surgery. He spent the next six years confirming the high mortality rates and attempting to improve the service.

Bolsin's actions significantly reduced high death rates for children’s heart surgery in The Bristol Royal Infirmary. This was the first time that such a serious problem had been identified and then rectified in the NHS. It remains to this day the most important single-handed clinical outcomes improvement brought about in the NHS. Particularly as a result of widespread adoption of recommendations from the Kennedy Report, Bolsin’s actions have affected clinical governance in each specialty in every hospital in the NHS. The concept of ‘Clinical Governance’ that has emerged and taken root in the UK NHS, Australia, New Zealand and globally, arose directly out of Bolsin’s actions in Bristol