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A pioneering technique known as Heart transplant donation after circulatory death (DCD) has been credited with saving hundreds of lives and increased transplant numbers by a quarter.

The number of people having heart transplants is set to double after experts pioneered a new technique for retrieving organs from donors. Some 200 patients a year undergo the operation on the NHS, but hundreds more remain on waiting lists and about 20 die each year because of a shortage of available hearts. Now medics at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge have developed a new heart in a box device that helps to keep the organs in better condition after they are retrieved from donors, which co...