MPs to meet health bosses to make the case for Glenfield
Two MPs are to meet officials carrying out a review of the future of children's heart surgery at Glenfield Hospital.
Leicester West representative Liz Kendall and Nicky Morgan, MP for Loughborough, are hoping to meet Lord Ribeiro, chairman of the Independent Reconfiguration Panel.
The panel is reviewing a decision to cut the number of hospitals in England which provide surgery for children born with heart problems from 11 to seven.
Glenfield Hospital is one of those earmarked to stop the service.The meeting is expected to take place on December 13. The MPs are among 15 from across the East Midlands and two members of the House of Lords who have written in support of Glenfield Hospital.
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Their letter expresses concern that three particular clinical points were not adequately considered by the decision-making body, the Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts.
These include the impact of moving the specialist children's Ecmo (extra corporeal membrane oxygenation) service to Birmingham, worries over whether there is room in Birmingham to deal with more patients and the low mortality rate at Glenfield Hospital.
Ecmo is used to oxygenate blood outside the body, doing the work of the heart and lungs.
The letter, which has also been signed by Bishop Tim of Leicester and Lord Bach of Lutterworth, said: "We firmly believe that there is a strong clinical case to retain services at Glenfield Hospital and this demands a full and proper reconsideration of the evidence."
Ms Kendall said: "This is a cross-party initiative involving MPs from all parties and from all parts of the East Midlands."
Ms Morgan said: "We all pledged to continue the campaign to save children's heart surgery at Glenfield and this is the next step."
Comments
by workforce
Saturday, December 08 2012, 11:52PM
“heisspartacus, Your not seeing or taking in my comments even from the black and white reports from Parliamentary records. The link which I provided gives you the route to ALL the speaches Vaz has made in Parliament and, according to them he has not on any occasion made any representation in Parliamentary speaches about the imminant closure of the childrens heart centre in Glenfield He has made plenty of others which have nothing to do with his constituancy such as the Yemen and Shilpa Shetty to name but two of them.
Your comment about his backing of Liz Kendle on a march is correct, he obviously was on the podium with other MP`s there but, did he join the march at it`s start ? Or as I suspect when it got to the House of Commons Green he was there on the podium having just come out of the house of commons as a coersed mouthpiece of the Labour party ?
Only those there and those in the know are aware of the answer to that question.”
by heisspartacus
Saturday, December 08 2012, 10:28PM
“workforce, try again, they are there in front of you. Comments about it, joining with other MP's on protest march and so on. Are you sure you are Googling”
by workforce
Saturday, December 08 2012, 1:40PM
“heisspartacus
I suggest you get your facts correct, Mr vaz has made no comments about the closure of this unit in Parliament at all that I can find doing a search on Google and even the houses of parliament sites. . Here is a link to his speaches /comments about glenfield http://tinyurl.com/bv3szv3
Paying lip service to a question by a reporter on a demonstration is not what I would call trying to keep this unit open.
If you dig into this further, he has made hundreds of more comments about Yemen and other things outside his constituancy and still is on a nearly weekly basis .
As for miss Kendle and the rest of the MP`s
Kick ass to keep this unit open.”
by Lynnieheal
Friday, December 07 2012, 11:05AM
“the staff have done their work good the MPS have not . If the MPs had done their work properly this unit would still be there”
by heisspartacus
Thursday, December 06 2012, 10:35PM
“Workforce, do a google search, say Vaz and Glenfield, and then you will have an answer to your uninformed comment”
by workforce
Thursday, December 06 2012, 9:45PM
“And the rest of our local MP`s are where on this matter ? Someone please kick Mr Vaz off his cushions to explain his lack of comment over this local hospital.”
by disident3
Thursday, December 06 2012, 11:44AM
“If it is not broken why fix it. Best hospital around. I owe them my life.”