{"id":585176,"date":"2026-05-15T08:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/585176\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T08:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:46:09","slug":"more-than-100-patients-with-advanced-heart-conditions-are-to-be-recalled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/585176\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 100 patients with advanced heart conditions are to be recalled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement, the trust said it had begun the process of writing to each person, offering them the opportunity to meet a consultant cardiologist to go through the results of the review process. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added it was only focusing on patients who had a CRT device inserted by Lau.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A number of patients have already been seen by a specialist consultant cardiologist involved in the review process at a dedicated clinic and more will be seen in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They will be notified by letter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A relation of one of those patients said the letter had caused a lot of distress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sources told BBC News NI some consultants were angry about the length of time it takes the trust to review a consultant&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One medic said that the review process is unnecessarily lengthy and causes distress among patients and frustration between doctors in the affected department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Trust has an advice line on 028 9615 0100 which is open from 09:00 &#8211; 20:00 on Friday 15 May and 10:00 -14:00 on Saturday and Sunday 17 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a statement, the trust said it had begun the process of writing to each person, offering them&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-585176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}