S.O.S Royal Brompton Hospital. Save our children's services.

[Bohica]

A review of children's heart services in England has recommended that the Royal Brompton's heart surgery for children should stop.

The review recommends cutting to only two centres in London, which will mean an unprecedented increase in case load for the remaining centres - and an unnecessary gamble with children's lives.

The Brompton fountain, a charity that supports families and children is launching a campaign to save RB's children's cardiac services.

for more details about the review and the proposed changes go to www.thebromptonfountain.org.uk

what we need you to do

We need our MP's to understand the impact pf these plans. Most of them have no idea that a world famous hospital is under threat. We have drafted a letter which you can adapt for our own particular MP.

Sign our petition

This is our website: www.thebromptonfountain.org.uk

Support us on facebook

We have launched an area on facebook where you can register your support. Details of events to support our campaign will be posted.
Please add your support and comments at:
www.facebook.com/savebromptonchildrenscardiacservices

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I found out about the proposed closure today at my DD's cardiac appointment

Aibu to want you all to help? Please add the links to your face book pages & sign the petition, it's really important to us.

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The thing is, the more cases a hospital/surgeon does a year, the better the outcomes. So restructuring to support this is the right thing to do

My understanding is that childrens' cardiac services are being centralised to ensure that all the remaining centres get to do a critical threshold in terms of numbers of operations. There were very well publicised concerns about death rates at units where fewer operations were carried out (John Radcliffe in Oxford was one, IIRC). Nobody is saying that children should not receive life saving surgery - quite the contrary. This is being introduced so that death rates will continue to fall and children can be treated at centres of excellence.

Signed and bumped. They were amazing when my son was in heart failure in the first few months of his life. Just exceptional.