The body, the paediatric and congenital cardiac services review, was asked to settle a question at the centre of the Bristol tragedy, and which has been raised many times over the years: how many operations should be carried out by a children's heart unit each year for the surgeons to be expert in the complex techniques?
0.5% of that income is a salary of £200,000 a year, which is just about in the possible range of top surgeons' salaries.
You can have 200 excellent brain surgeons, and quite a few more average ones, all for the cost of a single man in a suit running a large bank in Britain.
Similarly, the squad are accompanied by a high-calibre medical team possessing direct lines to the finest orthopaedic surgeons.
When I was in my mid-twenties, I did a piece for a women's magazine which involved going around plastic surgeons to see who would give me Botox, liposuction and a boob job.
The review concluded that each surgeon should do at least three operations a week, 120 a year, and that there should be at least three surgeons in the unit to guarantee care quality and cover for absences.
The operating model depends upon delivering surgeries at high volume – the surgeons there are ten times more productive than surgeons elsewhere in the country.
The proposal comes from a body of consultants and parents set up after the Kennedy inquiry into Bristol Royal infirmary, where babies died after heart operations by surgeons whose death rates were unacceptably high.
Medical supplies and military surgeons were being flown in last night from the Washington area, from America's Ramstein Air Base in southern Germany, and from South Africa.
Today he is recognised as one of the leading fistula surgeons.
As in Jaroben's case, the stigma associated with women suffering from fistula can result in expulsion from family units and as the topic is considered taboo, women often do not discover that their condition is largely curable given access to the right medical surgeons.
