But for the children - 16-year-old Konstantinos and Evelina, 13 - it is a hard adjustment from city life.

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But a review found closing it would let the NHS to concentrate on paediatric cardiac surgery at the Evelina and Great Ormond Street hospitals.

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In London children's heart surgery would be carried out at Evelina Children's Hospital and Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital if the review body's recommendations go ahead.

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Patients will have to use centres in Alder Hey, Great Ormond Street and Evelina Children's Hospital, both in London, Newcastle's Freeman Hospital, Birmingham Children's Hospital, the Royal Children's Hospital in Bristol or Southampton General.

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It ruled surgery would continue at Great Ormond Street in London, Evelina Children's Hospital, also London, Newcastle's Freeman Hospital, Birmingham Children's Hospital, Alder Hey in Liverpool and the Royal Children's Hospital in Bristol or Southampton General.

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Dr Jean-Pierre Lin, consultant paediatric neurologist at Evelina Children's Hospital in London, says that in children the commonest cause is damage to the foetal brain during pregnancy which means that the brain does not develop in a normal way.

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And by placing the MRI machine in the neonatal intensive care unit at Evelina Children's Hospital in London they are one of the few centres in the world to have a scanner in such close proximity to the babies who often need it most, Prof Edwards says.

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