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NHS Heart and Lung Transplant

Great Britain · Government / Conservative Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1983

Margaret Hilda Thatcher1983

Harefield Hospital · Government / Conservative Party Government

During Margaret Hilda Thatcher's government, professor Sir Magdi Yacoub performs the first combined heart and lung transplant in the UK at Harefield Hospital.

Names involved

Margaret Hilda Thatcher

Provenance

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