Explore the data

In this section you can explore the overall hospital survival statistics published by the National Congenital Heart Disease Audit (NCHDA). The data covers all hospitals in the UK and Ireland that performed heart surgery in children (0-16 years old). NCHDA update the data annually and each report covers a 3 year period.

Data on this site comes from the NCHDA annual reports, all of which can be downloaded from the NCHDA website.

Note that Scotland is developing its own Scottish Cardiac Audit Programme and, since April 2021, no longer participates in the National Congenital Heart Disease Audit. The last report which includes data from The Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow is 2017-2020.

Also note that from the reporting period 2020-2023, the Royal Brompton Hospital (NHB) paediatric congenital cardiac service has merged with The Evelina Children's hospital (GUY). The code used in NICOR reports has changed from GUY to GUY/GSTT.

Data for April 2021 — March 2024

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These are the hospitals in the UK and Ireland that performed heart surgery in children over this period (0-16 years old).

Clicking on a hospital will bring up specific information for that hospital along with an interpretation of its survival rate. It is only valid to compare a hospital's survival rate to its predicted range of survival and not to other hospitals. Read more about this in Everything Else.

The Everything Else section also tells you more about the predicted range and what happens if a hospital’s survival rate is outside its range.

You can hover over or tap on the charts to bring up more information.


Hospital

Number of Operations

Number of Deaths

Number of Survivors

Survival Rate %

Survival with predicted range

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Newcastle, Freeman Hospital
FRE
479
9
470
98.1
Leicester, Glenfield Hospital
GRL
586
5
581
99.1
Bristol Royal Hospital for Children
BRC
694
11
683
98.4
Southampton, Wessex Cardiothoracic Centre
SGH
751
6
745
99.2
Dublin, Our Lady's Children's Hospital
OLS
861
11
850
98.7
Liverpool, Alder Hey Hospital
ACH
913
19
894
97.9
Leeds General Infirmary
LGI
741
19
722
97.4
London, Evelina London Children's Hospital
GUY
1536
19
1517
98.8
Birmingham Children’s Hospital
BCH
1049
23
1026
97.8
London, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
GOS
1461
8
1453
99.5