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How the NHS Changed Our World

Series 1

Royal Papworth Hospital

Duration: 29 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One EastLatest broadcast: on BBC Two HD

Dr Giles Yeo discovers how doctors and patients at Royal Papworth hospital achieved the seemingly impossible - the first successful heart transplant in the UK. He meets some of the longest-living heart transplant patients, celebrity patient Eddie Large and finds out what the future could hold. Show less

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