Controversial heart patient plan scrapped

HEALTH chiefs in South Devon have scrapped plans to try a new way of dealing with heart attack patients which opponents warned could cost lives.

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In an email to local MPs NHS Devon announced it isn’t planning to go ahead with the proposal to divert life-saving heart procedures overnight from Torbay to Exeter.

Thousands of people signed a petition against the plan, which would have been trialled for three months in a ‘test and learn’ pilot.