Children’s heart surgery to end at John Radcliffe Hospital

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15/10/10

Children’s heart surgery to end at John Radcliffe Hospital

The NHS review into children’s congenital heart services will recommend that options for reconfiguring services do not include surgery at the John Radcliffe Hospital.

This interim recommendation follows robust consideration of an independent assessment of all hospitals in England that provide children’s heart surgery services. Earlier this year Sir Ian Kennedy led a panel of experts to assess the ability of the children’s heart surgical services to meet new quality standards. The service at the John Radcliffe Hospital received the lowest ranking assessment of the current 11 centres by a significant margin. Oxford is therefore the least likely of the 11 surgical centres to meet all the new quality standards for children’s heart surgery. The NHS review will therefore recommend that it should not be included in any potential configuration option for surgery. Instead, it is proposed the Oxford centre will continue to provide specialised cardiology services for children.

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