A major NHS consultation to help shape the future of children’s congenital heart services closes today with nearly 60,000 parents, children and health professionals around the country having had their say in how services should be provided in the future.
The Safe and Sustainable consultation asked for views on the proposals to make services safe and sustainable for the future by having fewer, larger centres of expertise and creating congenital heart networks to provide care closer to home.
Over the coming months responses to the consultation will be analysed by an independent, expert third party. The Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts – the decision making body – will consider the feedback carefully and consider other relevant evidence. Additional information will be considered by the Joint Committee including detailed analysis from the Health Impact Assessment work, results from testing families’ travel patterns validated procedure numbers and Trusts’ detailed capacity planning information.
More information can be found at: http://www.specialisedservices.nhs.uk/news/view/57
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