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Pioneering DCD programme increases heart transplants by almost half
9 November 2020Donation after circulatory determined death (DCD) heart transplantation at Royal Papworth Hospital has made a dramatic difference in the number of lives that have been saved since 2015.
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Annual Members' Meeting 2020
3 November 2020Join our virtual annual members' meeting on Wednesday 18 November to hear about the hospital's performance over the last year, including our response to coronavirus.
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Black History Month 2020: Melat’s story
30 October 2020Melat Haileselasse is a staff nurse working on the surgical ward at Royal Papworth Hospital, caring for patients who have just undergone major operations. Here she talks about her journey from Ethiopia to Cambridge.
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'Surgeons' series concludes with high-risk dilemmas
26 October 2020In the fourth and final episode, 75-year-old Maureen undergoes complex cardiac surgery to repair an enlarged aorta – the body’s largest blood vessel.
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‘Mini-lungs’ reveal early stages of SARS-CoV-2 infection
26 October 2020Tissue donated to Royal Papworth Hospital has been used to grow ‘mini-lungs’, which was then infected with the virus that causes COVID-19, to see how the human body responds in the early stages following infection.
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Black History Month 2020: Making positive changes
22 October 2020Judy Machiwenyika is chair of Royal Papworth Hospital's Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Network. She discusses the barriers black people face at work and what is being done to address those issues.
