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Coroner: 'Lost opportunities' to help boy after heart surgery

There were "lost opportunities" at Bristol Children's Hospital to help a four-year-old boy who died after heart surgery, an inquest has ruled. But to his parents' anger, the coroner said it did not fail Sean Turner with its basic care.

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'Missed opportunities' to save four-year-old Sean

In the six weeks between four-year-old Sean Turner's heart surgery and his subsequent death, there were "missed opportunities" that could have saved him.

But, recording a narrative verdict today, a coroner cleared Bristol Children's Hospital of failing to provide basic care to the little boy.

The inquest was the second in two months investigating the death of a child on Ward 32 - the children's cardiac ward.

ITV News Medical Editor Lawrence McGinty reports:

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