NHS Transplant Crisis: 30 Years of Stagnation and a System 'Assuming Goodwill Will Last Forever'

The UK's heart and lung transplant programme has failed to increase capacity in 30 years, with NHS Blood and Transplant's own medical director now publicly accusing NHS England leadership of presiding over a fragmented, unaccountable system that wastes donated organs and burns out its surgeons.

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Professor Derek Manas, the most senior doctor running the UK's transplant services, has written a leaked letter to NHS England describing a system where operations...