The UK's first hand transplant is a success

Professor Simon Kay and a multidisciplinary group of health professionals from Leeds carried out the first hand transplant in the UK. Click the links below to view a variety of articles on the procedure:

BBC
'Good progress' after first UK hand transplant

CBBC
The UK's first hand transplant is successful

Telegraph 
Surgeons carry out Britain's first hand transplant
UK's first hand transplant operation 'has changed my life', says Mark Cahill

Sky 
Hand Transplant Completed For First Time In UK

Guardian
UK's first hand transplant goes ahead after donor found on Boxing Day

Scottish Daily Record
UK's first hand transplant patient tells how he is looking forward to holding grandson's hand

Halifax Courier
Halifax man's hand transplant is a UK first

Channel 4
UK's first hand transplant patient making 'good progress'

Independent
Transplant first for Britain as man, 51, is given new hand
'I'm getting slight movement now': Transplant first for Britain as Mark Cahill is given new hand

Daily Mail
Britain's hand swap op granfrather ecstatic 

Huffington Post
UK's First Hand Transplant Operation Performed At Leeds Hospital

Yorkshire Post
Yorkshire experts carry out UK's first hand transplant

Daily Mirror
UK's first hand transplant: Dad's joy as he can move fingers just days after pioneering operation

Yorkshire Evening Post
Video: Hand transplant at Leeds hospital is UK first

ITV 
Britain's first hand transplant
Mark Cahill talks about his hand transplant experience
A history of successful hand transplants

The Sun
Dad is first to have UK hand transplant

Yahoo UK
UK's first hand transplant op: Grandfather with paralysed hand 'ecstatic' after pioneering eight-hour procedure

The Times
Pioneer British hand transplant patient Mark Cahill delighted with result 

Daily Star
Hand op success

To view the Hand Transplant UK website click here