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) > Geographical location
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Geographical location
33 While referred to in the second report of the JCC of the RCP and RCSE in 1980, geographical location was not formally a criterion for designation of an SRC. Bristol's geographical location, however, was clearly a deciding factor in its designation. Dr Halliday said: `In the case of Bristol, the case was weak, but there was an important point and that was the geographical cover, because all the other units covered the country well, but the South West was deprived in terms of cardiac surgery, especially for neonatal and infants. So the Advisory Group was concerned to see that part was covered. Indeed, many of the professional reports identified that there was a need for cover in that area ...' [25] and `... if you are designating a service for the first time and you are endeavouring to cover the country, you may well have to identify a unit which at that moment in time is not performing as well as some of the other centres which may have been established for many years, but the intention is to develop that service, nurture that service.' [26]
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