HC Deb 04 May 1990 vol 171 cc684-5W
Mr. Hinchliffe

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what representations have been made by his Department to either the Yorkshire regional health authority or the Leeds eastern authority regarding the recent heart and lung transplant operation performed on a three-year-old boy at Killingbeck hospital, Leeds; and if he will make a statement.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

We have drawn the attention of the regional health authority to the Department's policy on the provision of heart transplant services. Our policy, which is based on the advice of the supra-regional services advisory group and the Royal College of Surgeons, is that heart and heart-lung transplantation should be provided within the designated supra-regional units.