A NEW report into the death of Warminster boy Sean Turner has highlighted the scale of the failure of his care at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, where he died at the age of four following complex heart surgery in 2012.

The damning report, which was carried out by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO), lists 22 failures by nurses and doctors at the hospital and casts doubt over the NHS report which was published earlier this year.

Mum Yolanda Turner feels that this report highlights some of the areas of failure which the NHS report failed to address.

She said: “This report has brought us a little bit closer to the truth. There were so many discrepancies in the NHS report so we needed more clarity, and this report has brought that.

“It is far more damning, which is what the NHS report should have been.

“While we still don’t feel the whole truth is out in the open yet, this is certainly a better report.

“Also, one of the doctors has apologised to us, and it feels like the first genuine apology we have received in four and a half years.

“The most shocking thing isn’t one individual failing in particular but the fact there are so many of them. The scale of it is simply heartbreaking.”

Failures listed include the fact Sean should have been returned to intensive care but was instead kept on a low dependency ward, that nursing documentation was inadequate and that his parents were misled by staff about the level of high dependency care he would receive.

Sean died after suffering a brain haemorrhage and cardiac arrest in March 2012, six weeks after he underwent corrective heart surgery.

On occasion his parents found him sucking on wet wipes as he was too dehydrated.

University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust said it was "sorry" for its failings.