Heart patient plans to be heard

A decision is due on plans to change the way heart attack patients are treated in Suffolk.

The government's so-called Heart Tsar Professor Roger Boyle will report on his findings of proposals to send emergency patients outside the county.

Professor Boyle met doctors and paramedics in Ipswich last month to to hear their views.

It followed opposition to plans to offer urgent heart attack care at units elsewhere in the region.

The proposal, drawn up by NHS Suffolk and the East of England NHS Specialist Commissioning Group, would involve sending patients from east Suffolk to specialist heart attack centres in Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Middlesex or Essex.

It was due to go ahead on 1 June but was put on hold while the review went ahead.