Pioneering face transplant may become available on NHS - The Sunday Times 24th August 2008

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Face transplants could be provided on the NHS after regulators confirmed this weekend that they were in early talks to authorise state funding. With a team of British surgeons planning to carry out the world’s first full face transplants on four patients, the body that decides whether to fund highly specialised treatments said it was preparing to make an assessment for the NHS.

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