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Meeting with Jane Kennedy MP

Jane Kennedy, the MP for Liverpool Wavertree, which includes Alder Hey, came to our last committee meeting. She shared our concerns about how information has been fed to us. Jane said that she was able to get to the early part of the Chief Medical Officers Summit, and had heard the CMO make his frank apology for what had happened to us all. She has been approached by several constituents who are affected by organ retention, and has tried to help them.

Jane agreed that those named in the Redfern Report needed to be made accountable for their actions. She was aware that some action was already being taken locally, and felt that PITY II would need to check that action was being taken as appropriate.

She explained that to get a change in the law would take about 18 months, and she would check with the government what action was being taken towards this. Although 18 months is a long time, she emphasised that other action was being taken in the meantime with new procedures for post mortem consent, new consent forms, and sanctions being put in place under existing law for those who abuse the system.

Jane also said that she would try and encourage the City Council to demolish Myrtle St, as the parents want. The committee also took the opportunity to lobby Jane about the abolition of Community Health Councils.

 

 

PITY II (Parents who have Interred Their Young Twice) is the parents' support group set up in the wake of the organ retention scandal
at Alder Hey Hospital (Liverpool, UK). It aims to provide self help support and advice to affected families.


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