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While we understand the motivation of commissioners to show progress is being made with congenital heart disease services, threatening to withdraw services from one of the largest and most successful centres in the country seems an absurd approach.

Professor Diana Bilton, honorary consultant and former director of the adult cystic fibrosis (CF) centre at Royal Brompton Hospital, was awarded a prestigious lifetime achievement award by the European Cystic Fibrosis Society at its annual conference in Basel, Switzerland.

Dr Richard Grocott-Mason has been appointed medical director of Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust with immediate effect. Dr Grocott-Mason was appointed acting medical director in December 2015.

According to a new study, one in four patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) respond favourably to exercise rehabilitation, despite being frail.