Investigation Report S.68-02-03

Mrs C’s son Stewart was born on 28 January 1980 at the Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion, Edinburgh. He had a condition in which there is an abnormal accumulation of cerebro-spinal-fluid within cavities inside the brain and was transferred to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh where he was under the care of a Consultant Paediatrician. Stewart died on 6 February 1980. During 2000 and 2001 there was extensive publicity about organ retention. As a result Mrs C became anxious that organs might have been retained following Stewart’s death. She made enquiries of the Trust but remained unhappy about their responses