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.
Emma Norley's daughter, Lacey-Marie Poton, was born with Down Syndrome and heart defects.
Last summer, Lacey-Marie was sent home from the Bristol Royal Children's Hospital when Emma believed she should have been kept in the hospital's in the new high-dependency unit on ward 32.
Lacey-Marie later died, aged four-months.
Emma told Medical Editor Lawrence McGinty that she agreed with Steve and Yolanda Turner's call for an inquiry into care at the Bristol hospital.
She said: "I thought my daughter should be in high dependency. They were only using two beds when they had four [available in the unit].
Asked why the unit was being underused, she added: "They said there wasn't enough nursing staff."
There were "lost opportunities" at Bristol Children's Hospital to help a four-year-old boy who died after heart surgery, an inquest ruled.
Steve and Yolanda Turner release statement after a narrative verdict was recorded by Coroner overseeing inquest into their son's death.