Three major hospitals across England that provide complex heart care have been ordered to stop doing so amid concerns over standards. NHS England has told three units – in Leicester, Manchester and London – to halt complex surgery on patients born with heart problems by April 2017. Five other hospitals providing treatments other than complex surgery will have to stop those services too.  The sites affected are already promising to fight the decisions.  One hospital boss even described the announcement as “irrational and reckless”. The services being targeted provide care to people born with congenital heart problems, such as holes in the heart, which affect nine in every 1,000 babies, not other type of heart services. The announcement comes after attempts to reorganise services had to be abandoned three years ago following legal challenges by local campaigners and the hospitals themselves.

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