Understanding Children's Heart Surgery Data
 

This site is to help people make sense of the published survival statistics about children’s heart surgery.

Our website will help you to:

  • explore what survival rates can and can’t tell you
  • understand how the NHS monitors children’s heart surgery
  • explore published results for UK hospitals

Use the tabs or watch our animations to find out more!

What, why, how?

What do we mean by survival statistics? Why are survival statistics after children’s heart surgery hard to interpret? How does the NHS monitor them?

Data

  • Explore published survival statistics
  • Use the illustration to see how we present the statistics
  • Browse hospitals on a UK map
  • Get an overview of all hospitals in a list

Everything else

  • How are survival statistics monitored?
  • What happens if there are any concerns about the data?
  • More information about us, this website and other resources

Funding acknowledgement This project was funded by the National Institute for Health Research Health Services and Delivery Research Programme (project number 14/19/13)
Department of Health disclaimer The views and opinions expressed therein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Health Services and Delivery Research Programme, NIHR, NHS or the Department of Health.