Support: actress Jenny Agutter says the closure would threaten cystic fibrosis services
20 March 2012
Jenny Agutter has joined the campaign against the closure of a London children’s heart unit.
The Emmy-winning actress, 59, is backing the Royal Brompton Hospital’s bid to overturn the NHS plan in the Court of Appeal today.
Ms Agutter, whose niece Rachel, 33, was treated at the hospital for the lung condition cystic fibrosis, said the closure would make the Royal Brompton’s “world-leading” children’s cystic fibrosis service “unviable”.
The closure proposal is part of a rationalisation of children’s heart surgery which would also see the hospital’s intensive care unit close, threatening the cystic fibrosis service.
