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Nicholas Dakin Excerpts
Tuesday 27th March 2012

(12 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Lansley Portrait Mr Lansley
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My hon. Friend will know that no decision has yet been taken on the location of children’s or adult congenital heart surgery centres in England. Neither the draft adult clinical standards nor the proposed standards for children’s services require services for children and adults to be collocated.

Nicholas Dakin Portrait Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe) (Lab)
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Will the Secretary of State ensure that the relationship between adult and children’s cardiac services is properly considered as part of the review?

Lord Lansley Portrait Mr Lansley
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On both children’s and adult congenital heart services, all relevant clinical factors should be taken into account in the review, but I reiterate the point that I made to my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds North West (Greg Mulholland): the standards for those services do not require children’s and adult services to be collocated.