Campaigners fighting to save children's heart surgery at Glenfield Hospital will have to pin their hopes on the findings of an independent review.
Mrs Justice Nicola Davies today said a decision regarding the exclusion of services at Leeds General Infirmary, but including Newcastle's Freeman Hospital should be quashed because the decision-making process was "fundamentally flawed."
The decision made by the Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts (JCPCT) was to cut the number of children's heart surgery centres from 11 to seven. The seven centres did not include Leeds or Glenfield.
However, Justice Davies stressed that only part of the JCPCT decision had been overturned, so the process does not have to go back to the beginning.
Campaigners in Leicester are now hoping a review by the Government's Independent Reconfiguration Panel, due to report to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, next month, will recommend surgery for children born with heart problems remains at Glenfield Hospital.
