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25/04/13 - Think HEART Parliamentary Briefing
This week nearly 50 Members of Parliament attended an event held by CHF to raise awareness about the charity’s ‘Think HEART’ campaign. The MP’s who attended were keen to support the campaign, which aims to increase the early diagnosis of children’s heart conditions. Think HEART provides parents with five easy signs to help to spot a heart […]
09/04/13 - Comment on LGI surgery phased re-start 09/04/2013
The Children’s Heart Federation welcomes the reassurance that immediate safety issues in respect of paediatric cardiac surgery have been resolved. We understand that surgery will be phased in gradually over the next month starting with the lower-risk cases. We feel that it would help many parents to have an explanation as to what this means, […]
09/04/13 - NHS England: Phased resumption of children’s heart surgery at Leeds Hospital agreed
Reassurance given on immediate safety issues but hospital asked to improve monitoring of care Children’s heart surgery at Leeds General Infirmary can begin a phased restart on Wednesday, NHS England said today (Monday). It follows completion of the first-stage of a review by a multi-disciplinary independent clinical team, which has been working to establish the […]
09/04/13 - Statement from LGI: Leeds children’s heart surgery to resume on Wednesday 10 April
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is delighted to announce that we will be restarting children’s congenital cardiac surgery at Leeds General Infirmary from Wednesday 10th of April. Chief Executive Maggie Boyle said: “We stated on Friday that we wished to restart surgery once our partners were as confident in our staff and services as we […]
06/04/13 - Statement from Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust – Surgical issue from 2005
6 April 2013 Re: Surgical issue from 2005 A spokesman for Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust said today: “The Trust monitors surgical outcomes in children’s heart surgery on an ongoing basis and in 2005 identified issues with one of our surgeons about outcomes for a specific procedure, repair of tetralogy of Fallot. “We invited […]
05/04/13 - Statement: Lifting of the suspension of pediatric heart surgery at LGI
For Immediate Release Following the news about the lifting of the suspension of pediatric heart surgery at Leeds General Infirmary the Children’s Heart Federation would like to issue the following statement: CHF fully supported the decision to suspend pediatric heart surgery at Leeds General Infirmary because of safety concerns at the unit. CHF supports the aim to reinstate surgery […]
05/04/13 - Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust – Joint Statement on Leeds Hospital Children’s Heart Surgery
04 April 2013 EMBARGO ON PUBLICATION UNTIL 08.00 AM FRIDAY 5 APRIL 2013 Joint Statement on Leeds Hospital Children’s Heart Surgery Following a productive multi-agency meeting to review the decision to suspend children’s cardiac surgery at Leeds General Infirmary, agreement was reached to work together to restart surgery on the site early next week […]
02/04/13 - CHF Followup Comment on Paediatric Cardiac Surgery at the Leeds Children’s Hospital
The news regarding the suspension of surgical services at Leeds is very worrying especially to the parents and children who are due to have surgery in the next few weeks. We understand that all the families affected are being contacted individually by the Trust and we hope that by now that has happened – although […]
28/03/13 - CHF Comment on Paediatric Cardiac Surgery at the Leeds Children’s Hospital
For immediate release 28th March 2013 Children’s Heart Federation is deeply saddened by the announcement that paediatric heart surgery is being suspended at Leeds Children Hospital. Our thoughts are with the heart children and their families who have not received the quality of treatment they needed and deserved. We hope that the suspension of […]
28/03/13 - Statement – Safe and Sustainable High Court Decision of 27/03/2013
Yesterday the Court recognised the need for the NHS to continue its plan to improve services for children with congenital heart disease in order to ensure that services are safe and sustainable in the future, however the judge did rule that one part of the process was ‘unfair’. While CHF acknowledge the Court’s decision we […]
