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Monday, 16th January 2012
The Court of Appeal has granted the Joint Committee of PCTs leave to appeal the response to the Judicial Review by the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust. A full hearing will be held on either the 19 or 20 March 2012. Jeremy Glyde, Sa...
Monday, 9th January 2012
The Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts' urgent appeal in response to the Judicial Review by the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust will be heard by the Court of Appeal. The Court of Appeal has granted the Joint Committee of Primar...
Wednesday, 4th January 2012
The Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts' urgent appeal in response to the Judicial Review by the Royal Brompton Hospital will be heard by the Court of Appeal. The Court of Appeal has granted the Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts the appeal a...
Wednesday, 21st December 2011
Jeremy Glyde, Safe and Sustainable Programme Director, said: “In November 2011 the Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts (JCPCT) invited all 11 centres providing children’s congenital heart services to submit new evidence demonstrating ...
Tuesday, 20th December 2011
e-news is written to keep you updated with the work of the National Network for Burn Care. Click here for the January 2012 edition.
Thursday, 24th November 2011
Sir Neil McKay CB, Chair of the Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts, said: “We have today lodged the application to appeal the recent ruling by the High Court in response to the claim for Judicial Review by the Royal Brompton Hospital. We a...
Thursday, 17th November 2011
Dr Imogen Stephens, Medical Adviser, National Specialised Commissioning Team, said: Following the success of the internationally recognised CESAR Trial and the proven benefits of managing the most severe cases of flu in the past two winters, the NHS...
Monday, 7th November 2011
Reaction to the ruling by Sir Neil McKay, Chair of the JCPCT I am disappointed that the Judge decided to quash the consultation on an obscure technical point that had no material bearing on the JCPCT’s choice of consultation options. We respec...
Friday, 4th November 2011
The outcome of the Judicial Review regarding Safe and Sustainable and the Royal Brompton Hospital will be delivered by the Court on Monday 7 November at 10.30am. More information will be available here on Monday.
Tuesday, 1st November 2011
The National Network for Burn Care recognises the need for national guidance on severity thresholds for each of the three tiers of specialised burn care service. The attached guidance has therefore been drafted by the NNBC Network Clinical Lead...
Thursday, 6th October 2011
The Safe and Sustainable consultation on the future of children’s congenital heart services has now closed to Health Overview and Scrutiny Committees (HOSCs). The public consultation ran until the 1st July 2011 but it was extended to 5t...
Tuesday, 27th September 2011
Teresa Moss, Director of the National Specialised Commissioning Team, said:“Safe and Sustainable do not accept the allegations made today by the Royal Brompton. We will present our own case later this week when we provide evidence in court demo...
Friday, 16th September 2011
A new report published today concludes that children’s respiratory services, including cystic fibrosis services and asthma services, would remain viable at the Royal Brompton Hospital if children’s heart surgery services were moved. Contr...
Thursday, 1st September 2011
At the request of the Safe and Sustainable decision-making body, the Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts (JCPCT), Southampton University Hospital NHS Trust (SUHT) has produced a report on the safe retrieval of critically ill children from the Isle...
Wednesday, 24th August 2011
An independent report has found quality is the public’s top priority when it comes to shaping the future of children’s congenital heart services. The report, compiled by independent experts, Ipsos MORI, on behalf of NHS Safe and Sustainab...
Friday, 19th August 2011
The National Network for Burn Care has today released guidance to the NHS in England regarding the needs of burn injured patients in planning trauma care pathways.The Guidance decribes the principles which the NNBC would wish to see applied to the pl...
Wednesday, 17th August 2011
In June this year, two Steering Group reports (1.Children’s Neurosurgical Services in England: A Framework for the Future, and 2. Children’s Neurosurgery - Specification Standards May 2011) were circulated to Professional Associations for...
Wednesday, 17th August 2011
Safe and Sustainable is about improving all elements of the congenital heart pathway – not just surgery. As an outcome to the recent public consultation, over the next few months Safe and Sustainable will be working with the British Cong...
Friday, 5th August 2011
The interim Health Impact Assessment (HIA) report for the Safe and Sustainable review on the future of children’s congenital heart services is published today following detailed analysis to identify the potential health impacts of the JCPCT&rsq...
Friday, 29th July 2011
Today Ipsos Mori are making available responses received from associations, organisations and international clinicians during consultation. In order to ensure that all the issues raised in these responses can be fully considered they have been s...
Monday, 18th July 2011
Less is more for surgery Your article “A cruel cut striking at the heart of the NHS” (News Review, June 19) misses the point about the need to change the way children’s heart services are provided; the National Health Service must ...
Friday, 15th July 2011
Jeremy Glyde, Programme Director for Safe and Sustainable, said: “We welcome the fact that the Royal Brompton Hospital has failed in its attempt to halt the Safe and Sustainable process - just as it failed several months ago to halt the public...
Wednesday, 13th July 2011
e-news is written to update you with the work of the National Network for Burn Care. Click here for edition 1 (July 2011)
Tuesday, 5th July 2011
The National Network for Burn Care has undertaken a review of the National Burn Care Standards. A multi-disciplinary group, chaired by Owen Jones (Network Manager for Midlands Burn Care Network) has developed an updated version of the standards for ...
Friday, 1st July 2011
1st July 2011 A major NHS consultation to help shape the future of children’s congenital heart services closes today with nearly 60,000 parents, children and health professionals around the country having had their say in how services should b...
Thursday, 30th June 2011
A revised version of the NSCT Proton Referral Guidance V2.3 is now available and is effective as from 1st July 2011 The main changes to the guidance are: 1. The previous age limit for some of the paediatric diagnoses has been revised 2. A weight l...
Friday, 24th June 2011
The JCPCT has welcomed the Backbench Committee's debate on the review of children's congenital cardiac services held in the House of Commons on 23 June 2011. During the debate a number of statements were made which we feel deserve some clarification:...
Thursday, 23rd June 2011
Sir Neil McKay CB, Chairman of the Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts said: “Today’s debate in Parliament is a reminder that whilst people will always defend local services, there is strong support for ensuring the NHS provides the v...
Wednesday, 22nd June 2011
22 June 2011 Adrian Pollitt OBE will chair an independent panel of national and international experts to advise the Safe and Sustainable decision making committee about the potential impact of children’s congenital heart proposals on other ser...
Friday, 3rd June 2011
As part of the Safe and Sustainable consultation on the future of children’s congenital cardiac services, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust (SUHT) has asked the Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts (JCPCT) to consider new evidence ab...
Thursday, 2nd June 2011
1 June 2011 With just one month to go until the consultation on the future of children’s congenital heart services closes the NHS is calling for more people to have their say. 17,661 people including parents, young people and clinicians have r...
Thursday, 2nd June 2011
The process to designate future NHS services for adults with congenital heart disease (GUCH services) in England is underway. The NHS will be working closely with GUCH patients, clinical staff and other relevant stakeholders to develop proposals to c...
Wednesday, 25th May 2011
The NHS review of children’s congenital heart services has brought in independent experts to test families’ travel patterns to surgical centres as part of the consultation on proposals for new congenital heart networks. PricewaterhouseCo...
Friday, 20th May 2011
The NHS in England is currently consulting on proposals for reconfiguration of children’s congenital heart services in England. The four-month Safe and Sustainable consultation is reaching large numbers of people: 2,432 have registered to atten...
Wednesday, 11th May 2011
9 May 2011 Leslie Hamilton, Immediate Past President of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery said: "Clinicians instigated the Safe and Sustainable review because we want world class care for children. In London the NHS has a unique opportunity to...
Tuesday, 10th May 2011
Young people across the country wanting to take part in the consultation on proposals to change children’s heart services will be able to respond via a new text service set up by Safe and Sustainable – the NHS consultation on childre...
Friday, 6th May 2011
Parents and young people in London are being urged to have their say on the future of children’s heart services in London as the NHS consultation reaches the half-way stage. Just 235 people in London have responded to the consultation into chi...
Thursday, 5th May 2011
The first British Burn Association Prevention Meeting takes place on 20th May 2011 at The Council House, Birmingham (10.00 - 15.00 hrs). Please attend if you are: -Interested or involved in burn care -Involved in injury prevention -Want to be inv...
Thursday, 5th May 2011
The new version of the Burns Emergency Planning Guidance has now been published by the Department of Health. Titled "NHS Emergency Planning Guidance - Planning for the management of burn-injured patients in the eventof a major incient". The gu...
Thursday, 21st April 2011
Dear Sir, In response to your report on the Save our Surgery campaign by the Children’s Heart Surgery Fund, Saturday 16 April 2011. There is no doubting that there is considerable local support for the unit at Leeds General Infirmary and &lsq...
Thursday, 21st April 2011
Dear Sir, Changes to the way children’s congenital heart services are delivered in the future will be a concern for many families and staff – especially if those proposed changes require children to travel to another centre for surgical ...
Thursday, 14th April 2011
Young people with congenital heart disease and parents across England are being invited to participate in focus groups as part of the Safe and Sustainable consultation on the future of children’s congenital heart services. In addition to the pu...
Friday, 8th April 2011
A spokesperson for Safe and Sustainable said: 1 April 2011 Safe and Sustainable wishes to correct media stories that are based on misleading information. We reject allegations that have been made by Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT). We are...
Thursday, 7th April 2011
7 April 2011 Dear Sir Re: ‘Kids will die’ warning on Leeds heart unit closure The suggestion that children ‘will die’ is highly misleading. In an emergency a child is ‘retrieved’ or collected by a highly sp...
Thursday, 7th April 2011
Sir, Whilst I am saddened that we find ourselves facing legal action from another NHS organisation I am more concerned that we may lose sight of the very real opportunity that the review of children’s heart services provides - changing c...
Thursday, 17th March 2011
Teresa Moss, Director of the National Specialised Commissioning Team, said: Safe and Sustainable is about improving outcomes for children with congenital heart disease and we do not see a reason to delay such an important consultation. We are a...
Tuesday, 1st March 2011
The NHS has launched a major four month public consultation on the way children’s congenital heart services should be provided in the future. The NHS is urging everyone with an interest in children’s congenital heart services to take part...
Monday, 28th February 2011
Formal public consultation on options for change will launch here on 1st March 2011.
Wednesday, 16th February 2011
16 February 2011 Safe and Sustainable – the NHS review into the future of children’s congenital heart services in England – has today proposed four options to reduce the number of hospitals providing children’s heart surgery ...
Wednesday, 16th February 2011
For materials available at today's JCPCT meeting in public (16 February 2011) click here. Please see some Frequently Asked Questions below. 16 February 2011 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS – for media use Key messages H...
Thursday, 10th February 2011
The media operational note for the meeting of the Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts (JCPCT) on 16th February 2011 is available here.
Thursday, 10th February 2011
The Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts will hold a meeting in public on 16th February 2011 to discuss proposals for safe and sustainable children's congenital cardiac services in England, and determine the options for consultation. For more infor...
Monday, 17th January 2011
A spokesperson for the Safe and Sustainable review team said: “The Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts (JCPCT) – the group making recommendations for public consultation on the future shape of children’s congenital heart service...
Thursday, 13th January 2011
A spokesperson for the National Specialised Commissioning Team said: “This week The National Specialised Commissioning Team has further increased the number of beds available for adults requiring ECMO taking the total number to 25. The number ...
Thursday, 6th January 2011
A spokesperson for the National Specialised Commissioning Team said: “The National Specialised Commissioning Team has significantly increased the number of beds available for patients requiring ECMO. The number of beds has increased from five ...
Friday, 24th December 2010
Background Information: Some people with H1N1 and other conditions develop acute respiratory problems. Some critically ill patients may benefit from having the ECMO procedure. ECMO (Extra-Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation) is a complex procedure which ...
Friday, 17th December 2010
Background Information: Some people with H1N1 and other conditions develop acute respiratory problems. Some critically ill patients may benefit from having the ECMO procedure. ECMO (Extra-Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation) is a complex procedure which ...
Friday, 22nd October 2010
Dr Martin Ashton-Key, Medical Advisor for NHS Specialised Services, said: “Professor Spiegelhalter’s initial analysis of outcome data - prepared for the South Central SHA review into the Oxford centre - was made available to us on 14 Sep...
Friday, 15th October 2010
Children’s heart surgery at the 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 ...
Wednesday, 29th September 2010
The National Specialised Commissioning Team has been re-named NHS Specialised Services from September 2010. AGNSS has replaced the National Commissioning Group with some additional responsibilities. For more information click here
Friday, 24th September 2010
In light of an independent analysis of mortality data that was received by us in September 2010, and which identified three children’s heart surgical centres (in addition to the John Radcliffe Hospital) where the difference between expected mor...
Friday, 24th September 2010
Welcome to the new NHS Specialised Services website. The site includes information on the structure of the organisation and groups within it, and detailed information on all of the services currently being commissioned. Special features include a com...
Thursday, 23rd September 2010
AGNSS, the Advisory Group for National Specialised Services,will hold its first meeting on 24thSeptember. AGNSS’ main role will be to provide support and advice to ministers on specialised services commissioned at a national level.More inf...
