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Heart Diseases: Transplant Surgery

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of adopting elements of the heart-transplant programme established in Poland in the 1980s by Professor Religa.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
18 Jun 2026
Target answer date
22 Jun 2026
Answer
29 Jun 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 18 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of adopting elements of the heart-transplant programme established in Poland in the 1980s by Professor Religa.

  2. 22 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 29 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    The Department is aware of the historical contribution made by Professor Zbigniew Religa to the development of heart transplantation in Poland during the 1980s. As part of NHS England's Heart and Lung Transplantation Transformation Programme, national and...

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