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Sally Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Huyton, has been appointed Chair of Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust. She will begin her three-year tenure on 1 January 2017. 

Statistics from Public Health England have shown an increase in norovirus in the local community. The virus, also known as the winter vomiting bug, causes diarrhoea and vomiting.

A recent study has shown that around one per cent of the population carry a faulty gene which could predispose otherwise healthy people to heart failure, especially if the heart is put under stress.

In July 2016, NHS England announced plans to reconfigure congenital heart disease services for adults and children. Part of the published proposal included ending congenital heart disease services at Royal Brompton – a proposition that was described by Trust representatives at the time as ‘extraordinary’.