The Healthcare Commission has produced a website listing performance for 30 of the 33 hospitals with heart units. The website are listing details of survival rates for all cardiac surgery and also individually for the two most common types of heart surgery.

“This is an important move in increasing information available to patients and the public about clinical outcomes” said Sir Ian Kennedy, Healthcare Commission chairman.

Patients in England and Whales demanded more openness after surgeons where found to have continued carrying out heart operations even though they had higher death rates than in other hospitals.

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