Life-saving professor's final surgery

For thousands of families across Leeds and beyond, Professor Giles Toogood's steady hands have meant a second chance at life.

- by Laura Collins

Over the last four decades he has carried out thousands of operations and hundreds of liver transplants at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

And now he has performed his final surgery after chalking up more than 8,000 gall bladder operations and over 2,000 liver resections. He said: "It's been a big part of my life, and it will be a strange feeling, stopping operating after all this time, but it happens to us all.