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A 13-year-old girl from Worcester, who is the first child in Britain to have received an artificial heart, has told her story for the first time since the operation last year.

At a consultation event for staff at Royal Brompton Hospital on Friday (31 March), NHS England claimed their proposals to decommission congenital heart disease (CHD) services from the Trust had the backing of clinicians … but were unable to arrange for a single doctor to attend the meeting and defend the proposals.

Nearly two thousand doctors, nurses, patients, family members and other campaigners marched along Chelsea’s famous Kings’ Road on Saturday to protest against NHS England plans to decommission congenital heart disease services at Royal Brompton Hospital. 

Yesterday, 21 MPs issued a letter to Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt MP calling for him to block plans to decommission congenital heart disease (CHD) services at the Trust.