Children’s Heart Surgery

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister – in the House of Commons at 12:42 pm on 12 June 2013.

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Photo of Jon Ashworth Jon Ashworth Opposition Whip (Commons) 12:42, 12 June 2013

Clinicians at Glenfield hospital, and people across Leicester and the wider east midlands, will welcome what the Secretary of State said today on the suspension of Safe and Sustainable, but I want to ask him a further question on the point that Andrew Bridgen made about the future of the extra corporeal membrane oxygenation centre. The decision to move ECMO from Leicester to Birmingham was a direct consequence of Safe and Sustainable. That decision is now suspended—I hope that is what the Secretary of State is saying. Will he reconfirm that the future of ECMO provision will be fully taken into account by NHS England?