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Foundation charity who hope the procedure could become widely available on the NHS.

As a result of promising findings, the charity have now launched the Compassionate Treatment Programme, which offers stem cell therapy to heart disease patients on compassionate grounds.

The programme aims to treat one patient per week and hopes to increase this number in 2018.

Jenifer Rosenberg set up the charity after her husband Ian became seriously ill with a heart condition and was given weeks to live. The couple travelled to Germany, where Ian received stem cell therapy which transformed his life.

Sadly Ian has now passed away but Jenifer continues to run the charity with the aim of raising the necessary £6.5million to fund the initial trials. She was immediately put on a cocktail of drugs but towards the end of 2009, Denise was taken off all medication.

In 2010, she suffered heart failure again, this time in an airport, and her condition seemed hopeless. She felt she was living on borrowed time and her disabled son Alex, 16, who had been badly brain damaged after a car accident in 2005, told her he couldn’t carry on without her.

She says: “I was told to go home and ‘make preparations’ – in other words, plan my funeral and find someone to care for Alex. I’d been widowed, my son was brain damaged and I was about to die. I became depressed and saw my illness as my own failing.”

So, Denise opted to try the stem cell therapy in 2013 and it changed her life.

She said: “I can walk upstairs without losing my breath. I have the energy to be there for Alex and, despite being told I was going to die, I’m getting better every day.

“Even my cardiologist says it’s impossible, but the treatment has given me hope where before there