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Congenital Heart Disease
In 1997, there was what's called the Bristol Heart scandal. And it turned out that one of the hospitals had much higher than expected mortality rates in children compared to other units. The NHS centralised the service and has been going on since 2000. It means congenital heart disease services are actually one of the best areas if you have a long data set. But also, now that the field has really come on, as I'm sure you know, we're looking more at what are the other things matter.