davieG Posted 7 July 2016 Posted 7 July 2016 Children's heart surgery to stop at Glenfield Hospital By Leicester Mercury | Posted: July 07, 2016 By Cathy Buss 0 COMMENTS 11 SHARES image: http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/images/localworld/ugc-images/276308/Article/images/29487750/14827327-large.jpg Glenfield Hospital Comments (0) National health bosses have said they are to stop surgery for children born with heart defects atLeicester's Glenfield Hospital. They say it is unlikely that the hospital will be able to meet new standards and it intends to stop paying for the services. ADVERTISING inRead invented by Teads In a letter to John Adler, the chief executive of Leicester's hospitals, the regional director of specialised commissioning for the London region, Will Huxter, said: "We are taking these steps because we believe that they are in the best interests of patients with congenital heart disease and their families, including those yet to be diagnosed, who will need these services in the future. "We believe that by ensuring that all patients across the country are able to benefit from services that meet agreed national standards the quality of care they receive will be improved." Mr Adler has responded by saying he believes the decision is "wrong." In a series of staff briefings he said that the trust "will not sit by while they (NHS England) destroy our fabulous service." He said that one of the standards cited by NHS England was that Leicester's hospitals were unlikely to meet was each surgeon carrying out 375 operations a year. Mr Adler added: "Over the last 18 months we have made excellent progress, with the support of our charities and partner organisations, to meet the standards set by NHS England through the new congenital heart disease review. "We have expanded the number of beds, improved our outcomes, invested in staffing and briefed architects to create a new single site children's hospital which will meet the co-location standard. "We are confident that our clinical outcomes are now among the best in the country so we strongly disagree with NHS England's decision." The first Mr Adler knew about the NHS England decision was in a letter from Mr Huxter dated June 30 and giving him until July 5 to respond on "factual accuracy." The future of the pioneering Ecmo - extra corporeal membrane oxygenation - treatment is also likely to be affected. Campaigners have vowed to fight the decision and it has caused anger among city and county councillors. Leicester West MP Liz Kendall said she was furious about the decision. image: http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/images/localworld/ugc-images/276308/binaries/LK.JPG She said: "The children's heart surgery unit at Glenfield provides a superb service to families throughout the East Midlands. "Decisions must be based on what's best for children and the latest evidence on clinical outcomes shows that the East Midlands Congenital Heart Centre is one of the best performing surgical centres in England. "Closing the unit would also compromise our paediatric intensive care unit, with a knock on effect on other vital children's services in Leicester, and put at risk our world leading ECMO service which is the largest in the country, with the only national patient transport service. "Ensuring children get the very best quality of care is my absolute priority and I will work with the local community, clinicians and other MPs to fight this decision. "I am today writing to the Secretary of State for Health to set out my opposition to its closure and request an urgent meeting. "We successfully fought to save the heart unit in 2013 and we will now fight to save it aga Read more: http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/children-s-heart-surgery-to-stop-at-glenfield-hospital/story-29487750-detail/story.html#ixzz4DjS7WuX4 Follow us: @@leicester_Merc on Twitter | leicestermercury on Facebook Read more at http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/children-s-heart-surgery-to-stop-at-glenfield-hospital/story-29487750-detail/story.html#CPw1Kp5QuAu7WJgZ.99
Dr The Singh Posted 7 July 2016 Posted 7 July 2016 Children's heart surgery to stop at Glenfield Hospital By Leicester Mercury | Posted: July 07, 2016 By Cathy Buss 0 COMMENTS 11 SHARES image: http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/images/localworld/ugc-images/276308/Article/images/29487750/14827327-large.jpg Glenfield Hospital Comments (0) National health bosses have said they are to stop surgery for children born with heart defects atLeicester's Glenfield Hospital. They say it is unlikely that the hospital will be able to meet new standards and it intends to stop paying for the services. ADVERTISING inRead invented by Teads In a letter to John Adler, the chief executive of Leicester's hospitals, the regional director of specialised commissioning for the London region, Will Huxter, said: "We are taking these steps because we believe that they are in the best interests of patients with congenital heart disease and their families, including those yet to be diagnosed, who will need these services in the future. "We believe that by ensuring that all patients across the country are able to benefit from services that meet agreed national standards the quality of care they receive will be improved." Mr Adler has responded by saying he believes the decision is "wrong." In a series of staff briefings he said that the trust "will not sit by while they (NHS England) destroy our fabulous service." He said that one of the standards cited by NHS England was that Leicester's hospitals were unlikely to meet was each surgeon carrying out 375 operations a year. Mr Adler added: "Over the last 18 months we have made excellent progress, with the support of our charities and partner organisations, to meet the standards set by NHS England through the new congenital heart disease review. "We have expanded the number of beds, improved our outcomes, invested in staffing and briefed architects to create a new single site children's hospital which will meet the co-location standard. "We are confident that our clinical outcomes are now among the best in the country so we strongly disagree with NHS England's decision." The first Mr Adler knew about the NHS England decision was in a letter from Mr Huxter dated June 30 and giving him until July 5 to respond on "factual accuracy." The future of the pioneering Ecmo - extra corporeal membrane oxygenation - treatment is also likely to be affected. Campaigners have vowed to fight the decision and it has caused anger among city and county councillors. Leicester West MP Liz Kendall said she was furious about the decision. image: http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/images/localworld/ugc-images/276308/binaries/LK.JPG She said: "The children's heart surgery unit at Glenfield provides a superb service to families throughout the East Midlands. "Decisions must be based on what's best for children and the latest evidence on clinical outcomes shows that the East Midlands Congenital Heart Centre is one of the best performing surgical centres in England. "Closing the unit would also compromise our paediatric intensive care unit, with a knock on effect on other vital children's services in Leicester, and put at risk our world leading ECMO service which is the largest in the country, with the only national patient transport service. "Ensuring children get the very best quality of care is my absolute priority and I will work with the local community, clinicians and other MPs to fight this decision. "I am today writing to the Secretary of State for Health to set out my opposition to its closure and request an urgent meeting. "We successfully fought to save the heart unit in 2013 and we will now fight to save it aga Read more: http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/children-s-heart-surgery-to-stop-at-glenfield-hospital/story-29487750-detail/story.html#ixzz4DjS7WuX4 Follow us: @@leicester_Merc on Twitter | leicestermercury on Facebook Read more at http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/children-s-heart-surgery-to-stop-at-glenfield-hospital/story-29487750-detail/story.html#CPw1Kp5QuAu7WJgZ.99 Need some of that £350 million from the Brexit, and quick
Wymsey Posted 7 July 2016 Posted 7 July 2016 So the story: It's open. Threat of closure. Now saved. Thread of closure again. Now saved again. Going, possibly gone. Sad.
GaelicFox Posted 7 July 2016 Posted 7 July 2016 So the story: It's open. Threat of closure. Now saved. Thread of closure again. Now saved again. Going, possibly gone. Sad. It's gone
Soarvalleyfox Posted 12 July 2016 Posted 12 July 2016 Glenfield has the best success rates in the country (100% survival rate last year), it has the biggest ecmo centre in the UK that treats patients from all over the country and advises other ecmo centres how to treat their patients. The decision to close these services makes no sense and will be strongly appealed. Legal advice is being sought,the last review was majorly flawed as I believe this one will be found to also be. Will Huxter, the man from NHS england that has given Glenfield the bad news has not kept a job for much more than 2 years in over 10 years (see his LinkedIn account). University hospitals of Leicester have a strong leader in John adler. Over 10000 signatures on the petition within a few days of it going live. Please support your local unit, it is something to be proud of having in Leicester, with a worldwide reputation. Not gone at all...
Soarvalleyfox Posted 12 July 2016 Posted 12 July 2016 https://www.change.org/p/jeremy-hunt-mp-save-the-east-midlands-congenital-heart-centre-at-the-glenfield-hospital?recruiter=347266900&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=share_page&utm_term=mob-xs-share_petition-custom_msg&recuruit_context=fb_share_mention_control**please sign, 12500 signatures now**
Ian W LCFC Posted 12 July 2016 Author Posted 12 July 2016 It's gone I wouldn't be so sure mate. I don't think there's any real evidence to suggest that it should close, and it is one of the best in the country. Hopefully we'll keep it open just like last time!
Jon the Hat Posted 12 July 2016 Posted 12 July 2016 They should be encouraging Glenfield - who have made fantastic efforts to deliver more since the threat was posed in 2013 - not threatening them again. Ridiculous that the target could be achieved overnight by commissioning them to serve all of Northamptonshire, reducing people travelling down to Southampton.
Soarvalleyfox Posted 12 July 2016 Posted 12 July 2016 And yet they are keeping scandal prone Bristol open and giving them extra support! Glenfield take babies from Southampton and Bristol, as well as all over the country for ecmo
SystonFox Posted 12 July 2016 Posted 12 July 2016 Glen field is imho the greatest hospital in the world. The Ecmo treatment there is world class. Adult and paediatric intensive cares are both fantastic units. The congenital heart centre needs to stay open. It doesn't make sense to close it. Fantastic staff, fantastic place, fantastic history. Long live the glenfield
BlueChamp2016 Posted 13 July 2016 Posted 13 July 2016 Glenfield is the centre of excellence (first hand knowledge). Don't let anyone convince you it's not in their quest to centralise and likely let private companies profit! Glenfield ECMO is yet another fantastic achievement for Leicester, and we should be proud supporters of this most vital resource to our area.
GaelicFox Posted 13 July 2016 Posted 13 July 2016 I wouldn't be so sure mate. I don't think there's any real evidence to suggest that it should close, and it is one of the best in the country. Hopefully we'll keep it open just like last time! I hope you do , but I'm told it's gone and the clinical directors know as much , many are being head hunted
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