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  • World-first paediatric heart transplant technique boosts number of life-saving operations for children in the UK

    21 February 2021

    By ‘reanimating’ the heart outside of the body, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Royal Papworth Hospital and NHSBT expand donor pool and perform six paediatric heart transplants in 2020.

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  • New training programme aims to boost number of registered nurses

    12 February 2021

    The ‘Internationally Trained Nurse Programme’ at Royal Papworth Hospital will enable overseas nurses to become registered nurses in the UK

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  • Royal Papworth Hospital recruits 100th patient to RECOVERY Trial

    3 February 2021

    Almost 40% of all eligible patients at Royal Papworth have been recruited to the COVID-19 study, against a national baseline target of 10%.

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  • Royal Papworth Hospital’s founder commemorated 80 years on

    30 January 2021

    Sir Pendrill Varrier-Jones (1883-1941) founded the tuberculosis colony that would eventually become Royal Papworth Hospital.

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  • Two months after giving birth in hospital with COVID-19, nurse returns home to meet daughter for first time

    27 January 2021

    Eva, 30, was 34 weeks pregnant when she was rushed into hospital with coronavirus. After 76 days she has now been discharged home to meet her daughter for the first time.

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  • Cystic fibrosis patient recovering well from coronavirus after ‘scariest’ moment of her life

    12 January 2021

    Erica recently contracted coronavirus and became critically unwell, but has fought back thanks to ‘support, love and care’.

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