Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 24127
Heart Diseases: Children
Tabled: 14 January 2025
Answered: 20 January 2025
Question
David Baines
Labour — St Helens North
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) increase capacity on children's heart units and (b) ensure that children requiring treatment receive it in a timely manner.
Answer
Karin SmythPatients have been let down for too long whilst they wait for the care they need, including children awaiting specialist cardiac input.As set out in the Plan for Change, we will return to the National Health Service’s constitutional standard that 92% of p...
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