Good survival rate for heart patients
Published Date:
04 July 2008
SURVIVAL rates for patients having heart surgery at the Northern General Hospital are "consistently high", according to figures published this week.
Ninety-six per cent of patients came through bypass surgery, valve replacement or other types of heart surgery at the hospital between 2004 and 2007.
The figures were published by the Healthcare Commission, which checked on survival rates for heart surgery in the UK.
Cardiac surgeons in Sheffield were among the first to make their statistics public to enable patients to make an informed choice on where to have their operation.
They are based at the Chesterman Centre at the Northern General, a purpose-built unit whose surgeons who saw 1,064 adult heart surgery patients for the year ending March 2007.
Dr Stephen Campbell, clinical director for Cardiothoracic Services at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: "We are pleased that our survival rates published by the Healthcare Commission reflect the outstanding team we have here in the cardiac unit at the Northern General Hospital.
"Our rates remain consistently high which is what our patients deserve."
The full article contains 184 words and appears in Sheffield Telegraph newspaper.
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Last Updated:
04 July 2008 7:32 AM
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Source:
Sheffield Telegraph
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Location:
SHEFFIELD, SOUTH YORKSHIRE
