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Derriford Hospital

Volume 506: debated on Tuesday 2 March 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) whether mechanisms are in place at Derriford Hospital to ensure that patients who require remedial surgery following full minimally invasive oesophagectomy procedures are operated on by the same surgeons who carried out the initial surgery; (319162)

(2) whether he has made an assessment of the level of post-operative care following full minimally invasive oesophagectomy procedures undertaken at Derriford Hospital following the transfer of the upper gastro-intestinal cancer unit from the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital to Derriford Hospital;

(3) whether each of the trials that was being carried out at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital prior to the move of the upper gastro-intestinal cancer unit from the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital to Derriford Hospital is continuing.

These are matters for the local national health service. I have therefore written to the chair of the South West Peninsula Cancer Network and asked him to write to the hon. Member.