§ 14. Mr. SymsTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on cardiac services in England. [115161]
§ 15. Liz BlackmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the national service framework for coronary heart disease. [115162]
§ Yvette CooperOn 6 March my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State launched the National Service Framework for Coronary Heart Disease. This framework is a radical and far-reaching blueprint to transform prevention, diagnosis and treatment of coronary heart disease and will help save 200,000 lives by 2010.
§ 18. Mr. JackTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the future of cardio-thoracic services in the north-west of England. [l15165]
§ Yvette CooperCardiothoracic services in the north-west of England will be improved in line with the National Service Framework for Coronary Heart Disease and the Strategy for the Development of Invasive and Tertiary Cardiac Services in the North-West Region (Dargie Report), published in April 1999.