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Heart Research UK

Heart Research UK is a visionary national charity founded in 1967 by Yorkshire heart surgeon Mr David Watson MBE, who realised that patients were dying unnecessarily because of the lack of research into heart disease, especially surgical techniques.

More personally, he was frustrated at having to tell heart patients that there was little he could do to help them and wanted to do more, so he set up the charity to make it happen. Having paid for six of the first eight successful UK heart transplants, Heart Research UK still funds ground-breaking medical research into the prevention, treatment and cure of heart disease.

Our current projects include research into improving rehabilitation for children leaving hospital after heart surgery, and providing funding so that the parents of child heart patients leaving Birmingham Children's Hospital can have vital equipment to monitor their health when they get home. More here.

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