"Updated regulations were introduced last October after an outcry that foreign patients were being given organs donated by NHS patients – despite the fact there is a critical shortage of organs for the more than 250 Britons awaiting transplants.
But King’s College Hospital, in South London, is ignoring the rules and has carried out a liver transplant on a fee-paying patient, believed to be from Greece.
It emerged last year that almost 800 transplants had been performed by the NHS on non-UK patients over the past decade.
Some surgeons are making up to £20,000 a time by accepting private overseas patients for transplants"
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Nigel Heaton has been in the news again. See the Daily Mail here.
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