Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 24127

Heart Diseases: Children

Tabled: 14 January 2025
Answered: 20 January 2025

Question

David Baines

LabourSt 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 Smyth
Patients 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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