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Successful challenge to closures of children’s heart surgery units | UK Human Rights Blog
March 8, 2013 by Rosalind English	Successful challenge to closures of children’s heart surgery units
In this latest challenge to the reconfiguration of paediatric heart surgery services., the Administrative Court has held that an NHS plan to end child heart surgery at a number of centres in the UK was flawed for lack of consultation (see Martin Downs’ post on a previous challenge to this consultation). As Martin predicted, fairness and consultation have proved to be more solid ground from which to launch a missile against the NHS reconfiguration plan. This plan followed the findings of the Public Inquiry into deaths at Bristol Royal Infirmary (the “Kennedy report”) and was meant to address the “fragmented and uncoordinated” nature of this surgery across the country. The inquiry found that up to 35 children had died as a result of sub-standard care during heart surgery. As a result, a specialist panel, the Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts (JCPCT), was set up to encourage the development of specialisation by reducing the number of centres providing paediatric cardiac services.
- also, that adequate time should be given for this purpose. It was not contended, and the law on procedural fairness does not require, disclosure of every submission or all of the advice received. On the other hand, the more intrusive the decision the more likely it is to attract a higher level of procedural fairness. This requires, in turn, an equivalent intrusion by the court into the content of the consultation if it comes under challenge. In this case therefore Nicola Davies J went into considerable detail in analysing and setting out the “scoring” system adopted by JCPCT for the various centres, noting that
Disclosure of the sub-scores was not necessary to render the process fair, it was unlikely to improve the quality of the decision-making. The sub-scores were not material which the JCPCT was obliged to take into account when making its decision. [paras 84 - 88]
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One thought on “Successful challenge to closures of children’s heart surgery units”	tonykennick |
March 9, 2013 at 5:28 pm	Of course the fact that these closures will save the lives of children means nothing in these actions. Enjoy your fees.
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