Hospital will no longer carry out children's heart surgery
Children's heart surgery will no longer be carried out at Leicester's Glenfield Hospital after the service has been cut by NHS England.
'It's not just surgery that they offer - they offer life to my son'
Some of the most unwell babies in the East Midlands could be moved to either Leeds or Birmingham after the decision to close childrens' heart surgery services at Leicester's Glenfield Hospital.
It was identified as one of the centres that are set to close after an NHS national standards review.
At just eighteen weeks old, Louis had open heart surgery in Leicester on Tuesday. His mother Zoe Winston tells ITV News what the service means to her family:
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Hospital to stop carrying out childrens' heart surgery
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