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Belfast boy Daithi Mac Gabhann passes 2,000 days on waiting list for new heart

A Belfast boy who inspired a campaign to change organ donation laws in Northern Ireland has passed the milestone of 2,000 days on a transplant waiting list. Seven-year-old Daithi Mac Gabhann is battling hypoplastic left heart syndrome and needs a ...

22 Nov 2023 at 00:01

‘I can see the lovely little faces of my sons’ – cornea transplant recipient

Some 500 patients have waited for more than a year for a sight-saving cornea donation, new figures show. More than 4,000 people in England are on the waiting list for a cornea transplant, NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) said. The body said that ...

09 Oct 2025 at 00:01

Woman becomes longest survivor of heart and lung transplant

The UK’s longest-surviving heart and lung transplant recipient has described how she was given the “gift of a normal life”. Katie Mitchell had a combined heart and lung transplant 38 years ago. The 53-year-old from Sidcup in south-east London, ...

14 Oct 2025 at 07:04

Plea for heart valve donors after dip in donations

Concerns have been raised over a drop in the number of heart valves donated for life-saving surgeries. The NHS could not supply around one in five (20%) of heart valve requests from hospitals last year, according to new figures from NHS Blood ...

10 Nov 2025 at 07:07

Couple whose lives were saved by organ donation urge people to join register

A married couple whose lives were saved by organ transplants have urged people to join the donor register as one of them faces a wait for a new kidney. Richard and Wendy Caulkin, from York, met at the British Transplant Games in 2013 and ...

14 Feb 2026 at 00:01

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