Heart Unit concerns
The family of a six-year-old girl who requires long term heart and lung care are scared about having to take her long distances for treatment following the closure of the heart surgery unit in Leeds.
MPs raise concerns over heart unit closure
Yorkshire MPs, who are backing a campaign to save the region's only specialist children's heart unit, have raised the issue with Health Ministers in the Commons this afternoon. Child heart surgery at Leeds General Infirmary is set to end after an NHS review concluded that expertise
was spread too thinly around the country and should instead be should be concentrated in fewer hospitals.Closing the unit would mean patients travelling to Newcastle, Liverpool or Birmingham for treatment.
Pudsey MP Stuart Andrew and Leeds North West MP Greg Mulholland raised the issue during health questions in the House of Commons.
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