A mother whose baby son died on an operating table at the John Radcliffe Hospital is preparing to report the hospital trust to the General Medical Council.

Shara Vines, whose 11-month-old son Jaidon died during heart surgery in 2004, was paid £100,000 in an out-of-court settlement by the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust last year.

Miss Vines, 25, from Swindon, said she was now planning to submit all her evidence to the General Medical Council (GMC).

Her decision followed the suspension of all children’s cardiac surgery at the hospital following the deaths of four other infants in recent months.

She said: “I should have gone to the GMC a long time ago.

“When I found out they’d suspended operations at the hospital I knew I had to do something.

“I don’t want to stay quiet about what happened to Jaidon any more.”

Jaidon had a condition called pulmonary atresia which meant only two out of his four heart chambers were working.

Miss Vines claims she was not warned of any danger of her son dying during the surgery either personally or on a consent form.

She said her son’s medical notes said no post mortem was ordered, but by law, all deaths which occur on the operating table should be investigated through a post mortem.

Miss Vines was preparing to challenge a claim that her son died of natural causes in court.

She instructed a team of solicitors who worked on the case for almost five years, but days before the case was due to go to court late last year, the hospital admitted liability and paid the six-figure compensation.

The money has been placed in trust for her two daughters, Jaia, five, and Brailey, two.

Miss Vines said she would be sending her files to the GMC within the next week.

She said: “I never ever thought for a minute Jaidon would die. Nobody mentioned it to me.

“I will keep fighting for him. I think it’s disgusting they think they can just throw money at a situation to make it go away.

“Obviously I don’t want hospitals to shut down but they need to realise things are going wrong, and they need to find out why.”

NHS South Central is leading an independent review into paediatric cardiac surgery at the hospital. A spokesman was unavailable to comment on whether Miss Vines’s evidence would be considered.

Both the John Radcliffe and the GMC said they were unable to comment at this stage.