Final Report > Chapter 8: Paediatric Cardiac Surgical Services > The planning and funding of paediatric cardiac surgery for children under 1 year of age (neonatal and infant cardiac surgery)

The planning and funding of paediatric cardiac surgery for children under 1 year of age (neonatal and infant cardiac surgery)

1 In this chapter we describe the way in which the paediatric cardiac surgical (PCS) service for children under 1 year of age, neonatal and infant cardiac surgery (NICS), [1] was planned and funded during virtually all of the period of the Inquiry's Terms of Reference, as part of the national system of supra regional services (SRS). We set out the criteria whereby specialised services, including NICS, were designated for inclusion in the system, Bristol's designation as a supra regional centre (SRC) for the provision of NICS, and the subsequent decision to de-designate NICS as an SRS. A fuller account of the evidence received by the Inquiry on these issues is in Chapter 7 of Annex A.

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[1] NICS is PCS on children under the age of 1. The term `neonates' refers to children aged up to 28 days, and `infants' to children under 1 year of age