Leeds General Infirmary children's heart surgery to resume 5 April 2013 Last updated at 07:47 Children's heart surgery is set to resume at Leeds General Infirmary within days, a week after concerns were raised about death rates at the unit. Operations are due to begin early next week after a meeting between NHS bosses and other partners on Thursday night. Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust said work would be done to give "sufficient assurance" the unit is safe to reopen. Data suggested death rates were double that of other centres, but the figures' accuracy has been questioned. Doctors and other medical experts said the information had been unverified and was not fit to base a decision to close the unit on. Maggie Boyle, chief executive of the trust, said: "I am extremely confident that this service is safe and effective and should recommence at the earliest opportunity. I want partner organisations to be as confident in the service as I am. Fantastic care Parents had criticised the timing of the suspension of surgery at the unit, which came 24 hours after a High Court judge ruled that a decision-making process to close it as part of an England-wide reorganisation of services was "legally flawed." Sir Bruce Keogh, the medical director of NHS England, said the figures were among a "constellation of reasons" the decision was made. Jon Arnold, whose daughter Zoe underwent life-saving heart surgery at the unit in 2007 when she was three weeks old, said the news surgery is to resume was a relief. "There's been massive support from the parents and families for the unit, and this decision confirms what we thought about the quality of care all along," he said. My daughter had fantastic care at the unit. It was difficult to understand as a parent how they could have shut the ward so swiftly on the basis of unverified data. It left parents feeling very confused about what to believe and what was best for their child.