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Heart Diseases: Children

Question for Department of Health

UIN 198761, tabled on 4 June 2014

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the recommendations of the Leeds Children's Heart Surgery Services Review, published on 13 March 2014, if he will make it his policy that continuing audits of performance should be conducted at all children's heart surgery units.

Answered on

9 June 2014

NHS England and the regulators constantly monitor the outcomes at all children's cardiac centres. This data is provided regularly by the National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research. Specialised commissioning is currently reviewing the type of information that it analyses as part of the ongoing new Congenital Heart Disease Review into these services.

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