Tributes to surgeon who led UK's first successful heart transplant

25 November 2025

Royal Papworth Hospital/PA Wire

By Sam Russell, PA Media

A pioneering surgeon who led the UK’s first successful human heart transplant operation has died aged 93.

Sir Terence English performed the procedure on builder Keith Castle at a hospital in the village of Papworth Everard in Cambridgeshire in 1979.







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