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ÃÛÌÒAPP has a long and successful history of caring for patients with end-stage organ failure, for whom transplantation may be the only treatment option available.

We have nationally and internationally acclaimed transplant specialists, who have a vast breadth of expertise and commitment to providing the best possible healthcare.

All transplant services under one roof

Located at the Freeman Hospital – one of the most experienced and successful solid organ transplant centres in the UK – the institute was created to consolidate all transplant services under one roof. This includes heart, lung, liver, kidney, kidney/pancreas, and cell transplantation, as well as regenerative medicine.

This approach to transplant care centralises all related services within in-patient and day-patient settings, ensuring the very best use of our resources and a strong multidisciplinary medical, nursing and therapy team.

Operating under one roof also allows us to focus on continuously improving excellent outcomes for patients across all transplant specialities.

The institute also offers a unique opportunity for education and learning across different skills and disciplines.

Ground-breaking research

The institute offers a unique opportunity for ground-breaking research into new ways of using ‘high-risk’ organs and getting the best out of those we have, while keeping organs that are already transplanted going for as long as possible.

Our teams have strong links with ÃÛÌÒAPP University and our joint research and collaborative work has supported the development of best practice and new treatments, alongside providing a unique national resource for transplantation training.

Internationally renowned

As a national leader in solid organ transplantation with some of the highest success rates in the UK, notably in lung transplantation, the institute is internationally renowned, having achieved a number of ‘firsts’ including:

• Performing the first successful heart transplant for a baby in the UK in 1987
• The first successful single lung transplant in Europe and then the first successful double lung transplant in Europe in 1990.

We are also one of very few hospitals in the country who can provide simultaneous multi-transplant surgery, such as kidney and pancreas transplants. 

This means that we often receive referrals for very complex cases, patients who have certain types of cancers and those who have received previous transplants.

Many of these patients may have been considered too difficult to manage by other transplant centres.