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06/07/12 - Yorkshire Evening Post – Leeds to Lose Children’s Heart Surgery Service
By Katie Baldwin Published on Wednesday 4 July 2012 20:42 Campaigners were left bitterly disappointed as experts decided to move children’s heart surgery out of Leeds. The decision was made at a meeting in London to centralise the service in Newcastle instead. Families of sick children and hospital heads were dismayed at the loss […]
06/07/12 - Press Association – Hospitals to stop child heart ops
(UKPA) – 05/07/2012 Hospitals in Leicester, Leeds and the Royal Brompton in London are to stop performing heart surgery on children, it has been announced. In a move to streamline paediatric heart services, three of the 10 specialist units in England will stop performing such procedures on children. The move comes after an NHS review […]
05/07/12 - Halifax Courier – Leeds heart unit for children will close
Campaigners arriving at Downing Street, London, to hand in a petition against the possible closure of The children’s heart surgery unit at Leeds General Infirmary. Published on Thursday 5 July 2012 09:46 Calderdale families will have to travel to Newcastle or Liverpool for treatment in future following a decision to close the children’s heart surgery […]
04/07/12 - Children’s Heart Federation welcome decisions on children’s heart units and looks forward to future of improved care
Press Release – The Children’s Heart Federation, theUK’s leading children’s heart charity, has welcomed an end to the uncertainty about which units will continue to provide children’s heart surgery.
03/07/12 - Leading Children’s Heart Charity welcomes the end to long period of uncertainty for families
Leading Children’s Heart Charity welcomes the end to long period of uncertainty for families For immediate release The Children’s Heart Federation, the UK’s leading children’s heart charity, welcomes the prospect tomorrow of an end to the uncertainty about which units will continue to provide children’s heart surgery. The long-awaited final decision of […]
02/07/12 - Give a Car – we can make money from your old banger!
Turn your old car into cash for Children’s Heart Federation
29/06/12 - Watford Observer – MP Backs Mum’s Awareness Campaign
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29/06/12 - Safe and Sustainable Review decision due on Wednesday 4th July
With the long-awaited final decision of the Safe and Sustainable Review into children’s heart services due on Wednesday, The Children’s Heart Federation welcomes the end to the long period of uncertainty for families. CHF has been campaigning for improvements to UK heart care services for many years, particularly since the Bristol Baby Tragedy of the […]
28/06/12 - Think HEART update
So far we have had over 80 fantastic parents join-in and help out campaign by putting up a few posters in their local area. A number of our parents have written to their MPs and local PCTs to ask them to help with the campaign. This has meant that in two areas all GPs are […]
20/06/12 - Safe and Sustainable – Secretary of State’s advice on the Kensington and Chelsea OSC’s referral
The Independent Reconfiguration Panel has published its advice to the Secretary of State for Health regarding the referral by London’s Kensington and Chelsea Overview and Scrutiny Committee. The Secretary of State has accepted the IRP’s advice. The referral letter, IRP’s advice and the letter from the Secretary of State are attached. The press statement is […]
