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Meetings with Margo Brazier & Steve Catling
of the Retained Organs Commission.
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Meeting in the Liverpool Council Offices with
Alan Winter to discuss the Myrtle Street Building. Alan Winter
attends PITY II committee meeting to discuss Myrtle Street.
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Alder Hey publish their response to the Redfern
report.
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12/07/01- PITY II meet with Angela Jones, Tony
Bell & Kate Jackson and present them with our written comments
on their response. We discuss Alder Hey's plans for releasing
organs to parents as soon as the ROC gives the green light.
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16th August - meeting with Tony Bell, Angela Jones
& Anne Routledge.
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Correspondence with Prof.John Lilleyman relating
to the BMA conference in Bournmouth and the negative Media statements
by some of his colleagues. His response was sent out to members.
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Professor Sir Brian Follett made a special visit
to Liverpool to meet with the executive to explain the Follett
review.
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Follet Review Report is published. PITY II sent
a copy. Available to members on request.
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We maintain contact with the CPS & Merseyside
police.
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6th June - Margot Brazier & Steve Catling
of The Retained Organs Commission meet with Pity II in Liverpool.
as part of their regular update visits.
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The Adamson family organised a sponsored walk,
which was a great success.
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July 7th -Bill & Denise Green and their family
hold a fund raising night in Manchester at the Grove Club. PITY
II benefit to the tune of £981.50.
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A football-training day was organised by the Adamson's
for siblings affected by the organ retention.
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Committee members and coordinators attend a Stress
Handling Seminar in September
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Sunday 2nd September was the date of the trip
to CAMELOT organised by PITY II. Thanks to donations from Radio
City's 'Give a Child a Chance' appeal, Radio Merseyside &
the Co-operative Bank the children and families had a very enjoyable
day out.
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September - The ROC asks PITY II to help arrange
a public meeting in Liverpool especially for the people in the
North West. The meeting was held in the Suites Hotel in Knowsley
on the evening of 11th September. The next day -12th September
- we attended a second ROC meeting at Goodison Park. The same
evening some members of the ROC visited PITY II 's office for
a wrap up meeting to discuss the proceedings of the previous two
days.
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13th September - Meeting with Tony Bell &
Angela Jones.
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26th September- Hazel Blears, Under Secretary
of State for Health visits PITY II for a meeting in our offices.
The meeting lasted over two hours.
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4th October. - We have a meeting with Gordon Redfern
who is Kate Jacksons newly appointed replacement as manager of
the Serious Incident Project Team at Alder Hey.
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11th October - Roger Steel of the Consumers in
NHS Research Support Unit visits Liverpool to attend our meeting
and give a talk on the units' activities.
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The newly appointed Coroners Review Team contacted
PITY II to request a meeting. As a result on the 17th October
the Review Team Chairman Mr. Tom Luce and Secretary Mr. Mike Gallagher
visit the PITY II office for a meeting to discuss our input into
the review and any changes that we would like to see in the Coroners
system. A list of the suggestions and ideas that were put forward
at the meeting were later sent to Mr. Luce and Mr. Gallagher.
A copy is available to members on request.
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Following the GMC's decision to clear virtually
all of the doctors mentioned in the Redfern Inquiry Report, PITY
II meet with representatives of the GMC.
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10th November the Memorial Service - 'Honouring
the Memory' takes place in Liverpool Cathedral.
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27th November PITY II representatives attend a
ROC workshop in London as reported elsewhere on this site.
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29th November another PITY II committee meeting.
We again meet with Angela Jones, Tony Bell and Gordon Redfern.
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5th December PITY II representatives attend a
meeting of the Consumers in NHS Research Support Unit to give
a presentation on PITY II's work and experiences. Again reported
elsewhere on this site.
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6th December - five representatives from the Women's
Hospital attend a meeting in PITY II offices. They agree to attend
a future meeting if specifically requested. The same evening,
Prof. Brazier and Steve Catling visit PITY II offices to attend
our meeting. This is another of their regular progress report
meetings.
In addition to the above we have had input into the New Codes of
Practice, National Consent Forms for Hospital Post-Mortems and also
Coroners Post-Mortems relating to organ retention. Also leaflets
explaining the procedures and consent forms for parents and relatives,
which are being drafted by the Human Organs, Tissue & Ethics
branch of the Dept. of Health. Also the ROC leaflets relating to
the return of organs to relatives. We have been promised that we
will be consulted with regard to any future new legislation.
We have also had committee meetings when we have not had any visitors
that are not listed above - I have started to lose count.
We also, of course, write many letters on behalf of our members,
especially after the GMC's decision in August/September and send
out regular information letters to the membership. We respond to
the media as and when required.
As I said at the start, the last few months have been extremely
busy and I apologise if I have omitted anything from the above list.
I would like to extend my sincere thanks to everyone for their hard
work, dedication and commitment. A short break to recharge batteries
is needed so we have decided that our next committee meeting will
be on Thursday 10th January 2002. We will still be available if
you need us. You can still contact individual committee members
and co-ordinators and the office phone lines will be open.
![Link to Alan Milburn's [Secretary of State for Health] Speech to the House of Commons [UK Government] on the 30th of January 2001](../images/report2.gif)
