Updated: At 12.30pm today we had an Oral Statement on the review of the country's heart surgery units. There has been significant opposition to the plans to stop offering the surgery at Leeds General Infirmary, Glenfield in Leicester and the Royal Brompton in west London. The Independent Reconfiguration Panel delivered its findings and the new timetable for reassessment will be published shortly in July:
The good news is that the Health Minister confirmed that Childrens Heart Unit will continue at the Freeman
