Rosemary Radley-Smith: paediatric cardiologist who cofounded the charity Chain of Hope

In 1964 Magdi Yacoub was a senior registrar working at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London. He said, “I was doing my round late at night, preparing for the following day, and I found a young doctor reviewing the notes. We got talking and she told me ‘I have studied every patient on the ward and your patient has x, y, and z.’” The young woman was cardiologist Rosemary Radley-Smith, and she and Yacoub were to forge a close working partnership that lasted nearly 50 years.