PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Heart Diseases: Children (8 July 2014)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy that all children's heart surgery units should be subject to the same level of scrutiny.
Asked by:
Stuart Andrew (Conservative)
Asked by:
Stuart Andrew (Conservative)
Answer
Clinical audit is an important tool for driving up standards in the delivery of treatment and care. The National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research regularly provides clinical audit data to NHS England and the regulators which they use to monitor the outcomes at all children's cardiac centres. As part of the Congenital Heart Disease review, NHS England is currently reviewing the type of information that it analyses to monitor the outcomes of these services.
Answered by:
Jane Ellison (Conservative)
14 July 2014
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