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These 'breathing' lungs are first to be transplanted in new NHS programme
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August 21, 2026
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0:48Now PlayingA set of lungs have travelled hundreds of miles from one UK hospital to another, becoming the first to do so in a new NHS programme.
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The new Assessment and Recovery Centres (ARCs) model allows the organ to be donated at one hospital, tested at a second and transplanted at a third, which was previously not possible.
It is expected to increase number of transplants by 20%.
If this programme is successful, it would become the the standard approach for assessing organs in the UK and save or improve up to 750 lives a year.
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