Decision due on Leeds heart surgery legal challenge

A campaign group is due to find out this morning whether it has been successful in its legal challenge to overturn plans to close a children’s heart unit in Leeds.

Save our Surgery group (SOS) lodged a claim to the High Court last month over a controversial decision by the NHS to end child heart surgery at Leeds General Infirmary.

A judicial review by the High Court in London has taken place and a decision is due today.

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The closure would see poorly children from Wakefield having to travel to Liverpool or Newcastle for heart surgery instead of Leeds.

SOS claims the consultation process behind the plan was unfair and legally flawed.