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| Leeds General Infirmary children's heart surgery to resume | |
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| Children's heart surgery is set to resume at Leeds General Infirmary, a week after data indicated higher-than-usual death rates at the unit. | |
| Operations are due to begin early next week after a meeting between NHS bosses and other partners on Thursday night. | |
| Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust said work would be done to give "sufficient assurance" the unit is safe to reopen. | |
| Data suggested death rates were double that of other centres, but the figures' accuracy has been questioned. | |
| Doctors and other medical experts said the information had been unverified and was not fit to base a decision to close the unit on. | |
| Maggie Boyle, chief executive of the trust, said: "I am extremely confident that this service is safe and effective and should recommence at the earliest opportunity. I want partner organisations to be as confident in the service as I am." | Maggie Boyle, chief executive of the trust, said: "I am extremely confident that this service is safe and effective and should recommence at the earliest opportunity. I want partner organisations to be as confident in the service as I am." |
| 'Fantastic care' | |
| Parents had criticised the timing of the suspension of surgery at the unit, which came 24 hours after a High Court judge ruled that a decision-making process to close it as part of an England-wide reorganisation of services was "legally flawed". | |
| Sir Bruce Keogh, the medical director of NHS England, said the figures were among a "constellation of reasons" the decision was made. | |
| Jon Arnold, whose daughter Zoe underwent life-saving heart surgery at the unit in 2007 when she was three weeks old, said the news surgery is to resume was a relief. | |
| "There's been massive support from the parents and families for the unit, and this decision confirms what we thought about the quality of care all along," he said. | |
| "My daughter had fantastic care at the unit. | |
| "It was difficult to understand as a parent how they could have shut the ward so swiftly on the basis of unverified data. | |
| "It left parents feeling very confused about what to believe and what was best for their child." |