Transplant nursing at Papworth Hospital
Fiona Murphy Staff Nurses, Surgical Unit
Sharon Beer Sister, Special Projects to the Nursing Service, Papworth Hospital, Cambridgeshire, and Secretary of the RCN Transplant Forum
The diversity of nursing roles at Papworth is outlined in this series of short articles compiled by Sharon Beer and her colleagues
Papworth Hospital is the cardiothoracic centre for East Anglia and also one of the I designated supra-regional centres for cardiac and cardiopulmonary transplantation. It was the first hospital in the UK to commission a cardiac transplant programme within the National Health Service, in 1979.
Nursing Standard.
6, 27, 52-55.
doi: 10.7748/ns.6.27.52.s54
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