title: Transplants. The heart of the matter.
abstract: Thirty years after the world's first successful heart transplant, UK services are embroiled in a funding row. The country's eight units carried out more than 200 transplants last year, but after-care costs are rising as more people survive longer, and cardiologists fear the switch from central to regional funding will lead to cuts. Jenny Bryan looks at the past, present and future.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bryan
mesh_terms: D015276:Health Care Rationing; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000639:trends; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006354:Heart, Artificial; D006801:Humans; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement; D006113:United Kingdom