Press Releases

29 July 2010
Don’t scapegoat Oxford Heart Unit, urges charity 
Children’s Heart Federation welcomes the continued suspension of the paediatric cardiac surgical service at the John Radcliffe Hospital until the outcome of the current Safe and Sustainable Review.
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12 July 2010
White paper puts heart children at risk in scramble to save costs, warns charity  
Children's Heart Federation, the leading national charity supporting children and young people with a heart defect, warns that patients with the rarest conditions could suffer in the move to GP commissioning announced by today’s health White Paper.
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29 June 2010
Take the ‘Make a Difference Mile’ challenge to help a heart child this weekend 
Children’s Heart Federation (CHF) is urging local people to help veteran runner, Paul Willgoss, make a final push to the finishing line of his twelve-month long-distance campaign to raise money for children with a heart conditions.
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09 July 2009
Swine Flu Advice 
Guidance on swine flu for parents of children with heart conditions
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12 May 2009
"Let our children play!" - Congenital heart disease charities call for the end of exclusion from school sports 
The Children's Heart Federation (CHF) is using Children's Heart Week (9-17 May 2009) to call for the full inclusion of heart children in PE at school and more opportunities for participation in exercise, games and sports in the community.
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16 April 2009
"Sharpen 2020 vision for congenital heart care" urge charities 
Congenital heart disease (CoHD) charities are voicing their concern that the new ‘Destination 2020’ report launched today (Thursday 26 March) by the Cardiac and Vascular Coalition (CVC) does not draw the important distinction between congenital and corona
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12 November 2008
3rd ECHDO MEETING IN BERLIN: A milestone in the development of a strong European congenital heart disease community 
Congenital heart disease organisations across Europe came together for a joint workshop on November 7-8, 2008 in Berlin, hosted by the European Congenital Heart Disease Organisation (ECHDO) and Corience. The meeting served as a milestone in the developmen
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23 October 2008
Heart children’s charities make sacrifices to protect aid for hardest hit by credit crunch 
The Children's Heart Federation is urgently refocusing its resources to protect the small grants scheme that ensures parents hit hardest by the credit crunch can visit their children recovering from heart surgery during extended hospital stays.
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