The Royal Brompton Hospital in London launched a legal challenge against the NHS Safe and Sustainable review, after it earmarked its child heart surgery unit for closure under plans to create fewer, larger paediatric cardiac surgery centres.
The review suggested reducing the number of hospitals providing children's cardiac services from 11 to six or seven – and to include a reduction in the number of London units from three to two.
But the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust claimed the Safe and Sustainable recommendations were "fundamentally flawed" because the review team failed to properly consult on their plans, and the High Court agreed that the Brompton had been treated unfairly.
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