New machine called XPS system helps keep lungs alive outside the body for transplant
BBC - 23-Dec-2024This technology reduces waiting times for people needing lung transplants
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Specialist heart and lung hospital.
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK’s largest specialist cardiothoracic hospital and the country’s main heart and lung transplant centre.
At Royal Papworth Hospital our vision is to be the leading hospital providing excellence in specialist heart and lung patient care, based on research, education and innovation. Our focus is growth, value and effectiveness, with a commitment to the highest levels of clinical quality and providing the best standards of personalised care possible to our patients.
We have an extraordinary commitment to delivering the highest levels of clinical quality and providing the best standards of personalised care possible to our patients.
We treat over 22,800 inpatient and day cases and 53,400 outpatients each year from across the UK. Our services are internationally recognised and include cardiology, respiratory medicine, and cardiothoracic surgery and transplantation.
Visit website: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/
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See also: NHS - UK National Health Service, publicly funded healthcare system in England
Details last updated 29-Oct-2020
This technology reduces waiting times for people needing lung transplants