Summary: The Children’s Heart Surgery unit at Southampton is under threat despite being ranked the second best in the country as health chiefs look to cut the UK’s 11 centres down to six or seven. Southampton was featured in just one of four options which will be put out for a four-month public consultation starting on February 28, before the Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts makes its final decision by the end of the year. If Southampton closed, it would mean families would be forced to get life-saving treatment in London or Bristol, at units which experts say fell below the “exemplary” standards that Southampton has been scored so highly on. This is Nancy she is 2 and very soon faces a 3rd open heart surgery to prolong her life. Nancy was born with Hypo-plastic Left heart – the left side of her heart did not grow and she essentially lives with half a heart. It is thanks to the wonderful surgeons and team at Southampton General hospital that she is the wonderful little girl she is today. We would travel the world if it meant the best treatment but this assessment has shown we already get the best treatment and are having to fight to keep it. Please sign this petition being collated by the Southern Daily Echo to show your support. Thank you Petition download: http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/resources/files/14328
