Recently Great Ormond Street Hospital granted Carol Midgley from The Times unique access to the hospital to report on child heart transplantation.
In her frank and emotive article, Carol Midgley talks to a number of parents whose children have received life-saving heart transplants at the hospital and finds out what it was like when you are told the best hope for your child is to undergo a heart transplant.
Dr Mike Burch from the hospital's cardiac team also features in the article talking about the issues surrounding the lack of donor organs available in the UK. Dr Burch is undertaking pioneering research to find new ways to treat children with heart failure by using the child's own stem cells to help repair the heart. It is hoped that in the future this type of treatment could replace the need for surgery altogether.
Click here to read the article in full on The Times website
