David Miliband, the former Labour foreign secretary, has lobbied for a heart-surgery unit in Newcastle to survive the implementation of an NHS review of children's heart-surgery provision.
The unit will stop surgery for children but will remain open to diagnose patients, for monitoring and non-surgical treatment.
The revamp also includes a new day surgery unit, two new operating theatres, a short-stay surgical ward and a maternity unit.
It will recommend that the Oxford children's cardiac unit stops doing surgery, but continues to offer diagnosis and pre- and post-operation care.
An e-petition aimed at trying to save a children's heart surgery unit in Leicester has exceeded the target it needs to secure a parliamentary debate.
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He said the High Court judgement had found that the Safe and Sustainable Review had "acted in an unlawful way in closing the Leeds children's heart surgery unit".
Sir Roger said that despite safety assurances over Leeds General Infirmary, the full analysis of the data called for the children's heart surgery unit to remain under supervision.
Hawkins' biggest backache is dealing with the troubled back-surgery unit.
The JCPCT said creating fewer and larger centres would improve the service and recommended that Glenfield's Children's Congenital Heart Surgery unit and Children's ECMO equipment, should go to Birmingham.
It had argued consultations around the streamlining of paediatric heart surgery services in England were unlawful and that the closure of its child surgery unit would be "bureaucratic vandalism".
The NHS review has not been met with support everywhere - in Leeds, for example, campaigners have mounted a legal challenge against the decision to close its heart surgery unit.
Consultant plastic surgeon David Soutar, of Canniesburn Plastic Surgery Unit in Glasgow - the largest in Scotland, said Scots were happy to fork out to try to obtain the slim, muscular figures they had witnessed.
The Glenfield unit is to stop surgery for children but will remain open to diagnose patients and for monitoring and non-surgical treatment.
Adam Tansey's young son Albert had life-saving surgery at the unit.
David Dunaway, from the plastic surgery and craniofacial unit at Great Ormond Street, was the lead clinician and is also a trustee of Facing the World.
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Nearly 600, 000 people signed a petition against the decision to end surgery at the unit in Leeds, which treats children from across Yorkshire and the Humber region.
Lord Howe said the decision to suspend surgery in Leeds had been taken because of concerns raised from a variety of sources about the safety of surgery at the unit.
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In July, an NHS review said surgery at the heart unit should cease in order for resources to be concentrated in other centres.
Two years later they lobbied the state legislature to allow them to add a recovery ward, X-ray unit and kitchen to convert the surgery center into a hospital.
Medical professionals have called for further work to look at the feasibility of a stand-alone, midwife-led maternity unit, and a separate inpatient surgery centre, so planned operations are not disrupted or delayed by emergencies.
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The costs of hospital visits, surgery and time in the intensive care unit can be enormous.
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He spent hours in surgery and was in the intensive care unit.
In 2003, Gupta reported from Iraq and Kuwait as an embedded correspondent with the U.S. Navy's medical unit -- and worked alongside them, performing brain surgery five times.
He underwent brain surgery and spent months in a brain injury rehabilitation unit.
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Sir Bruce Keogh, chairman of the NHS, said surgery must stop in the Leeds children's unit for a safety review.
In addition to surgery patients, some patients in the intensive care unit receive infusions of propofol, Viscusi said, and may also receive pain medications.
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The group Save Our Surgery (SOS) has been fighting to keep the Leeds unit open and brought the case to the High Court.
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