Sentence examples for heart service from inspiring English sources

Huon Gray, NHS England's national clinical director for heart disease, said this was the last chance to bring about the changes that were needed to ensure an excellent children's heart service for the future.

Wales does not have its own specialist paediatric heart service.

Royal Colleges of Medicine and clinicians publicly welcomed the decision on the future of children's heart services".

The Independent Reconfiguration Panel's demolition of proposals for reconfiguring children's heart services has set the benchmark for all future service reviews.

Yet even smaller hospitals tend to advertise their profit-making departments, like cardiology, even though they may not offer the full range of heart services.

The review encompasses for the first time adult and children's congenital heart services, and envisages that demand will grow as more children born with heart defects survive and need treatment as adults.

Sir Neil McKay, Chair of the Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts, said: "The decision to improve the quality of children's heart services in England by pooling surgical expertise into fewer, larger centres was made by the Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts (JCPCT) in July 2012.

The panel told the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, that the review of children's heart services had failed in its objective of recommending a safe, sustainable and accessible way forward.

A consultation paper on the future shape of children's heart services has been launched by NHS England in a bid to win agreement from families, charities, politicians and hospitals after more than a decade of controversy.

There's just one month to go until the consultation on the future of children's congenital heart services closes - and the NHS is calling for more people to have their say.

A review of adult congenital heart services is underway, and another looking at children's neurosurgery.