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I would not normally post anything like this but there are some times when the hospital management who wish to make cuts in these areas need a wakeup call as to what people's priorities are
The Childrens Heart Surgery Unit, based in the Yorkshire Heart Centre at Leeds General Infirmary, is under threat because of an NHS review of such services across the country.
If operations at the unit are stopped, parents across Yorkshire and the Humber will be forced to take their children to other centres, possibly hundreds of miles away.
Having a personal friend who has a 3 year old member of their family alive because of the unit's excellent work and facilities compels me to ask for you support this petition, there are only a handful of units across the country to contemplate closing one is unthinkable
Web address for petition
_http://www.thepetitionsite.com/6/help-to-save-ward-10-childrens-cardiac-lgi/
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Some Key Points
1. The Children’s Heart Surgery Unit at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) covers Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and the North Midlands. Each year between 250 and 280 children undergo open-heart surgery at the Unit.
2. The Unit is accessible to nearly 14 million people within 2 hours travel time, including 5.5 million people in Yorkshire & the Humber – one of the highest population coverage of all the units in England.
3. The hospital has centralised the whole of its children’s services operation on one site. This is a huge asset and clearly meets the requirements of the Department of Health’s Critical Interdependencies report.
4. Leeds General Infirmary is at the forefront of work on inherited cardiac conditions and has an excellent record for providing safe, high quality children’s heart surgery
5. If the Unit closed, nearly 300 families who are helped by specialists in Leeds each year would have to incur further distress and cost when travelling further at an already difficult time in their family life. The distress will also be exacerbated whilst making journeys in difficult weather conditions like we have experienced this winter.
6. Leeds has the capacity to expand and is centrally located within the North to accommodate patients from outside the current catchment area via some of the UK’s major transport links such as the M1, A1, M62, and the national rail network.
The Childrens Heart Surgery Unit, based in the Yorkshire Heart Centre at Leeds General Infirmary, is under threat because of an NHS review of such services across the country.
If operations at the unit are stopped, parents across Yorkshire and the Humber will be forced to take their children to other centres, possibly hundreds of miles away.
Having a personal friend who has a 3 year old member of their family alive because of the unit's excellent work and facilities compels me to ask for you support this petition, there are only a handful of units across the country to contemplate closing one is unthinkable
Web address for petition
_http://www.thepetitionsite.com/6/help-to-save-ward-10-childrens-cardiac-lgi/
Edit
Some Key Points
1. The Children’s Heart Surgery Unit at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) covers Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and the North Midlands. Each year between 250 and 280 children undergo open-heart surgery at the Unit.
2. The Unit is accessible to nearly 14 million people within 2 hours travel time, including 5.5 million people in Yorkshire & the Humber – one of the highest population coverage of all the units in England.
3. The hospital has centralised the whole of its children’s services operation on one site. This is a huge asset and clearly meets the requirements of the Department of Health’s Critical Interdependencies report.
4. Leeds General Infirmary is at the forefront of work on inherited cardiac conditions and has an excellent record for providing safe, high quality children’s heart surgery
5. If the Unit closed, nearly 300 families who are helped by specialists in Leeds each year would have to incur further distress and cost when travelling further at an already difficult time in their family life. The distress will also be exacerbated whilst making journeys in difficult weather conditions like we have experienced this winter.
6. Leeds has the capacity to expand and is centrally located within the North to accommodate patients from outside the current catchment area via some of the UK’s major transport links such as the M1, A1, M62, and the national rail network.
