“These are tremendous advances, ” said Leslie Hamilton, consultant cardiac surgeon at Freeman Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne. “Transplantation is limited to a fixed number of patients.

“这将是巨大的进步”，泰恩河畔纽卡斯尔医院的心脏外科顾问医生Leslie Hamilton说，“就一定的病人数目，可供移植的心脏的数目是有限的。

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Leslie Hamilton, who is part of a national steering group looking at increasing the rate of audits, said the situation was "unacceptable".

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Leslie Hamilton, vice chair of Safe and Sustainable, the NHS group reviewing children's congenital heart services, said he believed there had been a recognition by some experts in the field that "change is needed" based on clinical evidence that larger units had better results "by way of fewer deaths and fewer complications".

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Simon Hamilton of the DUP and the UUP's Leslie Cree were among the members who argued that the Republic of Ireland's policy of levying corporation tax at 12.5% reduces the level of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Northern Ireland.

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