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launches plans trouble concentrating knowledge in fewer hospitals

The reorganization of the infant heart surgery in England has been questioned following a decision of the Supreme Court that the planned closure of a unit at the Royal Brompton Hospital in south-west London was illegal.

difficulties in closing all medical services showed marked by the successful struggle against the closure of Brompton doctors, staff, patients and their families. Many hospitals also offer cardiac surgery for children for the number of patients in need, a joint committee of all primary care trusts in England, supported by real medical schools, and other experts, to propose options to concentrate surgery in the smaller number of centers that could provide the best care for the most experienced surgeons. The reorganization has been under discussion for over a decade.

The committee decided that only two of the three pediatric cardiac hospitals in London - Great Ormond Street Children Hospital and the Evelina Brompton - must continue. A team led by Sir Ian Kennedy, who chaired the inquiry into the death of infants after cardiac surgery at Bristol Royal Infirmary, valued at three and given a score lower than the Brompton.

However, Judge Owen ruled Monday that the consultation is recommended Brompton closure was illegal because it was unfair to the hospital trust. The process, said, "was radically wrong."

when he rejected most of the arguments of the Brompton, he said the review was wrong not to allow the hospital to submit additional evidence on the quantity and quality Once the research he conducted at the end of the process that this was one of the factors on which the decision to close is made.

Mackay said that the final decision on the reorganization will take place next spring, after the call.