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Cambridge's Royal Papworth Hospital pulls off 'rare' number of transplants in just 17 hours The news comes a year on from Max and Keira's law being brought in, which changed England to an 'opt-out' system for organ donation 45-year-old, Himanshu Patel from East London, who received one of Papworth's 11 transplants in April (Image: Royal Papworth NHS Foundation Trust) Sign up to our newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your ...

The average for a month is seven. The 11 operations in April included three within a 17-hour period – two heart transplants and one double lung transplant. The donor organs arrived from three different hospitals and more than 20 staff were involved in retrieving and transplanting the organs. One of the three transplant patients, 50-year-old Barry Edgson, said he has been “given a second chance at life”. Mr Edgson, had a double lung transplant after suffering with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a condition that causes breathing difficulties, for around eight year...