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16/02/11 - ‘Being at sixes and sevens is good for children’s heart care’ asserts Children’s Heart Federation
The Children’s Heart Federation (CHF) is today urging politicians and healthcare practitioners to accept that being at sixes and sevens is good for children’s heart care, a reference to the need to reduce the number of active surgical units from ten to six or seven, in order to achieve the best possible health outcomes for babies […]
14/02/11 - Charity chief warns Cameron, “Sticking to your guns on Big Society will blast a hole in services for sick children”
For immediate release, Monday 14 February Charity chief warns Cameron, “Sticking to your guns on Big Society will blast a hole in services for sick children” Anne Keatley-Clarke, Chief Executive of the Children’s Heart Federation, is warning today that by pushing ahead with his plans for the Big Society, without a proper impact assessment of […]
07/02/11 - Children’s Heart Federation launches its 2011 partnership with Build-A-Bear Workshop
For immediate release – Monday 7 February 2011 Children’s Heart Federation (CHF) is launching its 2011 partnership with Build-A-Bear Workshop to help raise funds and awareness for children with heart problems at the Bournemouth branch of Build-a-Bear Workshop on 9th February 2011, when Coronation Street and Impressions Show star Debra Stephenson and a class of six year olds from […]
01/02/11 - Bournemouth Daily Echo
“Television star Debra Stephenson made an instant impression on primary school pupils when she helped them create cuddly Valentine’s Day gifts for children suffering from congenital heart defects. The Coronation Street and Bad Girls actress took time off to visit the Build- A-Bear Workshop in Commercial Road, Bournemouth, where she met foundation year pupils from […]
15/10/10 - Children’s Heart Federation comment on paediatric cardiac surgery at the John Radcliffe Hospital
For immediate release – Friday 15 October 2010 Children’s Heart Federation (CHF) accepts that in order to achieve the highest possible clinical standards in children’s heart surgery, there needs to be a reorganisation of the national paediatric heart care service that results in fewer, larger surgical units, each of which would have a team of […]
04/10/10 - Consultation response on ‘Liberating the NHS’ White Paper
Response to: Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS Vision We welcome all the elements of the vision of an NHS laid out at 1.10, except for ‘puts clinicians in the driving seat’. We contest the polarisation ‘clinicians good, managers bad’ advanced by this strategy. We support a competency-based approach to the National Health Service, […]
29/07/10 - Take the ‘Make a Difference Mile’ challenge to help a heart child this weekend
29th June 2010 Children’s Heart Federation (CHF) is urging local people to help veteran runner,Paul Willgoss, make a final push to the finishing line of his twelve-month long-distance campaign to raise money for children with a heart condition by taking the ‘Make a Difference Mile’ challenge at the East Midlands Designer Outlet on Saturday 3 […]
29/07/10 - Don’t scapegoat Oxford Heart Unit, urges charity
Children’s Heart Federation welcomes the continued suspension of the paediatric cardiac surgical service at the John Radcliffe Hospital until the outcome of the current Safe and Sustainable Review is known, and urges clinicians and health service planners to apply learning from Oxford across the national heart surgery service and to implement the agreed service standards, […]
12/07/10 - White paper puts heart children at risk in scramble to save costs, warns charity
Children’s Heart Federation, the leading national charity supporting children and young people with a heart defect, warns that patients with the rarest conditions could suffer in the move to GP commissioning announced by today’s health White Paper. In all their years of general practice, family doctors may only see cases of a rare condition, including […]
Jun 18th 2010 - Foetal Heart Development Study
The UK centre for the study of the genetics of multifactorial diseases is currently engaged in research into the genetics behind why some babies are born with heart defects, with the ultimate aim of preventing them altogether. In most cases, congenital heart disease develops because something has gone wrong during the crucial stage in foetal […]
