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Great Ormond Street

Series 2

Episode 3: Buying Time

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

This episode focuses on Great Ormond Street's heart transplant team. Every year, the number of donor hearts decreases: safer roads, better intensive care and a society reluctant to donate means fewer hearts and longer waits for children for whom transplant is the last resort. The Berlin Heart is a revolutionary machine that keeps these children alive. However, it's a precarious existence as the machine can only buy them time until the rare gift of a heart is made. Show less

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