This is Navid. He came to the UK as a refugee, qualified in medicine, and is now a research fellow at Royal Papworth. He is on a top programme in London and still came up on both Saturday and Sunday to help run our vaccination centre this weekend. Thank you Navid ๐๐ฝ
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- Nicoleta has been in hospital for 13 months, with 11 months in critical care and 10 months (299 days) on ECMO. Husband Mike has driven the three-hour round trip to visit his wife in our hospital almost every day for a year. Yesterday he came to take her home ๐ฅฐ
00:00 - This is more than just a bacon roll๐ฅ๐ Steve has motor neurone disease. Heโs been in our hospital since August. Having MND & a tracheostomy affects the muscles in his throat & mouth, meaning he has a poor swallow. His goal since October - eat a bacon roll (with ketchup)...
- Our fantastic critical care team have done it again ๐ Weโve just had a wedding at the hospital, involving a patient who is currently being cared for here while he waits for a heart transplant ๐ฐ๐ป๐ฅ๐ฉ Huge congratulations to Liam and Sarah ๐ #ICURehab | #RehabLegend
00:00 - Here's something quite incredible... This month marks 38 years since Richard's heart transplant at Royal Papworth Hospital ๐ซ. He is our longest-surviving heart transplant patient ever, having had his operation in 1984 at the age of 20. @NHSOrganDonor
- The story of a world first in child heart transplantation, delivered by the NHS during a global pandemic, which has saved the lives of six children since Feb 2020, including Anna, 16, and Freya, 14. A collaboration between ourselves, @GreatOrmondSt and @NHSBT. Thread 1/10
- Today, HRH The Duchess of Gloucester officially opened our new Heart and Lung Research Institute on the @CamBioCampus. HLRI has set an ambitious target to develop at least 10 new proof-of-concept drugs or diagnostic approaches within five years. @Cambridge_Uni | @RoyalFamily
- This is an incredibly powerful moment ๐ Phil is waiting for a heart transplant. He used to serve with 29 Commando Regiment, Royal Artillery. Today, the regiment drove all the way from Plymouth to come and see him and bring video messages from those who couldnโt join.
00:00 - Will Matthews has been an inpatient with us for 162 days (July). A bass guitar player, he was concerned the connection between his brain and fingers might be affected by a stroke. So our occupational therapist Amil lent him his bass to practice - today they played together ๐ธ๐ฅ
00:00 - Lorena, Sarah and Eugenio have spent today caring for #COVIDใผ19 patients. To them, and everyone else involved at Royal Papworth today and every day, we cannot thank you enough for your commitment to patient care. #NHSCovidHeroes | #StayHomeSaveLives | #SocialDistancing
- ๐น๐ถ Occupational therapist Ruth noticed that Mark, who recently had a lifesaving lung transplant, was feeling a bit flat. Mark loves to sing. Ruth loves the piano. And so this duet was formed earlier today. A supportive intervention, getting Mark back doing what he loves most๐
00:00 - Some of our new critical care nurses ๐๐พ๐๐พ Eighteen nurses who came from overseas to join us in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic have now passed the exam which allows them to become registered nurses in the UK. Welcome to the NHS and the Royal Papworth family ๐
- One of our patients, Gary from Peterborough, has motor neurone disease and is being cared for by our Respiratory Support and Sleep Centre (RSSC) team. He asked if we could arrange for his sons (who make up a band called Endeavour) to come and play a few songs for him (1/3).
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