Press Releases & Statements
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 […]
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 […]
19/04/12 - UK’s leading children’s heart charity welcomes Court’s decision over Judicial Review Appeal
For immediate release The Children’s Heart Federation, the UKs largest children’s heart charity, welcomes today’s decision by the three Court of Appeal judges who found the JCPCT’s process for public consultation in respect of the review of paediatric cardiac services to be fair, lawful and proper. ”In the light of today’s judgement we urge […]
18/04/12 - Any further delays to improvements in children’s heart services ‘extremely worrying’
For immediate release With the outcome tomorrow of the Appeal against the Judicial Review regarding Safe and Sustainable and the Royal Brompton Hospital, the Children’s Heart Federation, the UK’s leading Children’s Heart Charity, has voiced its concerns about the delays in the implementation of the higher standards of paediatric cardiac care recommended in the Safe […]
07/11/11 - CHF comment on the outcome of the Royal Brompton Hospital Judicial Review
In the light of today’s ruling on the Judicial Review of the Safe and Sustainable Children’s Cardiac Review, CHF, the UK’s leading children’s heart charity, urges everyone affected by the decision to keep children with heart conditions and their families in the forefront of their thinking and push forward until new service standards for paediatric […]
24/08/11 - Statement from CHF on the publication of findings from the Safe and Sustainable consultation
CHF, the leading UK charity dedicated to supporting children with congenital and acquired heart conditions and their families, welcomes the publication today (Wednesday 24 August 2011) of the analysis of the responses to the Safe and Sustainable Children’s Heart Services in England consultation. The findings reflect the respondents’ overwhelming emphasis on quality of service, which […]
05/08/11 - Charity urges vigilance for heart defects missed by newborn screening
Children’s Heart Federation (CHF) welcomes the findings of the Pulse Oximetry Screening Study published in The Lancet on Friday 5 August 2011 and urges the NHS to introduce this test as a routine activity before newborn babies are discharged from hospital, as an important strand in the detection strategy for congenital heart disease (CHD) alongside […]
26/07/11 - Statement from the Children’s Heart Federation about asking the Care Quality Commission for reassurance about the paediatric cardiac surgical service in Leeds
The Children’s Heart Federation (CHF) has written to the Care Quality Commission seeking reassurance that children’s heart surgery at Leeds is managed and delivered to consistently high standards to ensure that the long term quality of life outcomes for the children under the care of the unit reach the standards appropriate for UK paediatric cardiac […]
22/06/11 - ‘Stalling the heart review will put children at risk,’ charity warns MPs
The Children’s Heart Federation (CHF), the umbrella organisation for charities supporting children and young people with a heart condition, has contacted all MPs in advance of the Adjournment Debate on the Review of congenital cardiac services for children in the Chamber on Thursday 23 June (Member in charge: Stuart Andrew) urging them to vote against […]
