Heart Service moves to a new £14.5 million facility at Leicester Royal Infirmary

The new space for the East Midlands Congenital Heart Centre (EMCHC) will have a state of the art medial facilities as well as parents’ accommodation.

The move has been part-funded by the Trust and also through donations to Leicester Hospitals Charity from the community.

This facility is part of Leicester’s Hospitals wider vision to create the first single-site children’s hospital in the East Midlands.

Dr Bolger, said: “The move to Leicester Royal Infirmary enables us to reach for that next level of excellence in care, improving the experience for patients and their families when they need us most. We are all incredibly proud to have delivered a new space where a child can walk through the door knowing they are being treated in a place just for them."

The East Midlands Congenital Heart Centre team, who will move with the service, are amongst the very best in the world when it comes to the treatment of congenital heart disease (CHD). 

If CHD is treated then the patient can have an improved quality of life.

Currently around 9 in 1,000 babies born in England will suffer from some form of congenital heart disease, making it one of the most common birth defects for a baby in England to be born with. 

5-year-old Patrick Gillespie from Leicester has been a patient since 2016. Since discovering that Patrick had several heart conditions he has had four operations and it is expected that he will receive life lone care at the Heart Centre

Leah MacDonald, Patrick's mum said: “We are so thankful for the EMCHC and everything they have done for us. We are so excited to see the new facilities, which we believe will help make our time with the service so much more comfortable."