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Woman who lost husband after heart surgery welcomes resignation of surgeon at Wolverhampton's New Cross

A widow whose husband died after heart surgery has welcomed the resignation of the surgeon involved from New Cross Hospital.

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Ian Wilson left New Cross for 'personal reasons' last week.

He had been sacked from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham after being accused of fiddling surgery results.

And Mr Wilson has also been criticised by the coroner for Birmingham and Solihull who is investigating 15 deaths.

Peter Brookes.

The coroner found that surgery undertaken by Mr Wilson had been 'more extensive than necessary' in three of those deaths.

One of those involved was Peter Brookes, aged 72 and from Halesowen, in 2011.

He need a triple heart bypass operation but his wife Margaret said that double this amount was done.

She said: "I'm pleased he's left New Cross.

"There's been a lot of anger and grief in the past three years.

"The QE have been very supportive with us and we can't believe everything has gone on this long.

"He never said sorry for what happened at all, to any of the families involved."

A GMC inquiry into Mr Wilson is ongoing.

He had initially been working at New Cross on a voluntary basis, under intense supervision, before working as a locum.

The inquest concluded that an operation on Mr Brookes was more extensive then necessary and led to extra time in theatre, causing more harm.

Coroner Louise Hunt said this triggered low blood pressure and a cardiac arrest which caused brain damage. Mr Brookes then suffered further cardiac arrests in intensive care following surgery.

She made identical comments in recording narrative verdicts into the deaths of Alan Tringham, who had surgery in June 2012, and Alan Lucas, whose operation was in April 2012.

University Hospitals Birmingham Trust's (UHB) internal investigation found Mr Wilson under reported the length of time that 500 patients were on bypass by a total of 329 hours or 13.7 days.

Mrs Brookes added: "We've asked a lot of questions as to what happened and it's been a dreadful three years.

"We're now waiting to see what happens with the GMC inquiry but we hope he doesn't end up working somewhere else."

UHB alleged that Mr Wilson had shortened the length of time his patients were recorded as on heart-lung bypass to give the impression that his operations were going more smoothly than they were.

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