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 Jeremy Hunt Jeremy Hunt The Secretary of State for Health 12:42, 12 June 2013

The answer is this needs to be a mix of both; this needs to be about clinical excellence and issues such as accessibility and travel. A wide range of factors are involved. I accept, and this is widely accepted, that it is particularly difficult with specialist services to interpret mortality rates in a meaningful way, but that does not mean we should not look at them and seek to learn what we can.