The head of NHS England backed a doctor whose failures contributed to several deaths to resume her career as a heart surgeon. Sir Jim Mackey told the family of a patient who died following an operation carried out by Karen Booth that the consultant surgeon should be "supported" to continue working at the Freeman Hospital, in Newcastle, once she had undergone retraining. The BBC has obtained a recording of a meeting last year with the family of the man who died. In it, he tells them Ms Booth