Great Ormond Street Hospital is overseeing an urgent review of the cases of more than 700 patients after concerns were raised about one of its former surgeons.
The hospital said 22 children in 39 cases looked at so far had come to some degree of harm, and that it is taking the concerns “incredibly seriously”.
The 721 patients were treated by Yaser Jabbar, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon who worked at the hospital’s lower limb reconstruction service from 2017 until he stepped down in September last year.
The review was first reported by the Sunday Times, external, which also said it had seen a confidential report by the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) which was critical of the wider culture at GOSH.
