Thames Valley Air Ambulance crews will identify out-of-hospital patients who could use the advanced form of CPR A London hospital is hoping to save more lives by offering out-of-hospital patients who ...

For the first time in the world, a patient with a mechanical heart pump has taken part in a new gene therapy trial for heart failure at Harefield Hospital, London. This is the start of a new clinical ...

Patients in London are benefiting from ‘quicker, more accurate’ surgical procedures following the introduction of a ‘pioneering’ and ‘progressive’ 3D camera system which improves the hand-eye ...

The Secretary of State for Health, Alan Millburn, faced a peaceful protest when he visited the Heart Science Centre in the grounds of Harefield Hospital in north west London. As he went to cut the ...

Campaigners are celebrating the announcement that the internationally-renowned Harefield Hospital will not be closed. The hospital lives on following a government decision on Friday last week to scrap ...

One of the world’s leading heart surgeons, Sir Magdi Yacoub has saved thousands of lives across the globe. At 90, he’s still ...

Bert Janssen, 57, from the Netherlands, has survived 39 years after being given a donor heart at Harefield Hospital in Uxbridge in June 1984. He was first diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, a condition ...

More heart patients could be saved thanks to a new type of “advanced” CPR which involves hooking up patients to an artificial lung machine. People who suffer cardiac arrest – when the heart stops ...

The main Australian war cemetery in the UK has been targeted by vandals who sawed through a flagpole and spray-painted a memorial on the eve of Anzac Day. The attack took place at St Mary's churchyard ...

A boy from Hertfordshire who suffered brain damage after heart surgery will receive at least £5m in compensation. Robbie Crane, now 12, of Hemel Hempstead, won an out-of-court settlement of his claim ...

A woman who needed a life-saving transplant died when a surgeon forced donor lungs that were too big into her chest. Bosses at the world-famous Harefield Hospital in Middlesex took no action to ...