Heart campaigners were marking the latest step forward in the heart care saga yesterday as heart tsar Professor Roger Boyle demanded a review of the proposed plans.

The u-turn comes as Professor Boyle ordered that a thorough audit of previously untested journey times was carried out, in response to fears that long delays before treatment would put patients at risk.

He also called on health bosses to consider creating a a specialist heart attack centre in Ipswich, a move that had previously been resisited.

Serious heart attack patients will also be administered with clot busting drugs in the back of ambulances – a process that health bosses wanted to stop.

Ben Gummer welcomed the review:

“It is fantastic news. It shows that a concerned local campaign led by the Star and me can produce results.

I now want to make sure that the future for cardiology services at Ipswich Hospital is the one that has been recommended today.”

7th July 2009