Manchester hospital trust told to stop complex heart treatment
Date published: 09 July 2016
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Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of three major hospital trusts that has been ordered to stop providing complex heart care amid concerns over standards.
The BBC reports that NHS England has told three units - in Leicester, Manchester and London - to halt complex surgery on patients born with heart problems by April 2017.
Five other hospitals providing treatments other than complex surgery will have to stop those services too.
The sites affected are already promising to fight the decisions.
The services being targeted provide care to people born with congenital heart problems, such as holes in the heart, which affect nine in every 1,000 babies, not other type of heart services.
The announcement comes after attempts to re-organise services had to be abandoned three years ago following legal challenges by local campaigners and the hospitals themselves.
For the full report see:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-36737265
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