News
22/07/13 - Competition for free Great North Run Place
This week we are giving away one free place for the most popular half marathon road running event in the world on 15th Sept 2013 (registration fee usually £49). Tackle the 13.1 mile stretch of tarmac between Newcastle and Gateshead in and raise vital funds for the Children’s Heart Federation. Email your name, email address and […]
18/07/13 - Direct 365 – Defibrillators For Schools
How often do you check your first aid provisions, or know of the first aid provisions in your childs school? Do they simply have a little green box, locked in a cupboard, aside one of a few qualified first aiders? Is it kept in a room that hasn’t been opened since the new guy mistook […]
15/07/13 - CharityGiving website suspended – charity regulator acts to protect public donations
CHF are aware of the problems regarding www.charitygiving.co.uk and would like to reassure our fundraisers that we have not used this company. If you would like to set up a fundraising page we would reccomend using www.virginmoneygiving.com or www.justgiving.com For more detail on this issue please visit this entry on the Charity Commission website.
12/07/13 - BBC Breakfast – Pulse Oximetry Feature
Aired 11/07/2013. Report by Ben Moore of the BBC. Interview with Julie Wooton, Chair of CHF.
18/06/13 - Wonderful Weekender
Aged 13-21? Got a heart condition? You are not alone.
Meet others from around the UK, get empowered with managing your own health and getting to know your own heart.
When? Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th October
Where? London
Join us for a weekend of practical information, support, friendships and fun.
Hands-on workshops and information
Bowling, shopping at Westfield and a hotel stay!
14/06/13 - Halifax Courier – Heart services process re-evaluated
NHS officials have been ordered to re-evaluate the streamlining of children’s heart surgery services after the decision to close three units, including in Leeds, was deemed to be flawed. Plans to shut the units in Leeds, Leicester and west London were put on hold by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt after an independent review suggested that the consultation […]
14/06/13 - Gazette Live – Teesside families frustration over children’s heart surgery decision
Teesside families today spoke of their frustration as children’s heart surgery units face further uncertainty Teesside families today spoke of their frustration as children’s heart surgery units face further uncertainty. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt yesterday suspended plans to close three units in Leeds, Leicester and west London. The move once again calls into question the […]
13/06/13 - The Independent – Fury at Jeremy Hunt’s U-turn on child heart units
It has taken a dozen years, involved one of the worst scandals in the NHS’s history and involved five reports. But today, the national plan to concentrate children’s heart surgery in fewer centres for safety reasons was torn up and its architects sent back to the drawing board. The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, announced in […]
13/06/13 - Mirror – NHS child heart surgery review to start all over again after five years and £6m spent
The five-year probe into the 10 existing units, which has already cost taxpayers more than £6million, will start all over again The head of a major medical charity last today warned kids are at risk after a bid to improve children’s heart surgery collapsed. Children’s Heart Federation chief Anne Keatley-Clarke hit out after the […]
12/06/13 - NEWS RELEASE – “12 YEAR DELAY IN REFORMING HEART SURGERY IS COSTING CHILDREN’S LIVES” SAYS CHARITY
“12 YEAR DELAY IN REFORMING HEART SURGERY IS COSTING CHILDREN’S LIVES” SAYS CHARITY The UK’s leading children’s heart charity says children’s lives are being put at risk because of monumental delays in reforming England’s heart surgery services. The Children’s Heart Federation is urging NHS England to “be brave” and implement the new standards of care resulting […]
