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In a world first, 3D printing has been used in surgery to support the successful transplant of an adult kidney into a young child. Surgeons at Guys and St Thomas and Great Ormond Street Hospital came up with the idea to take 3D copies of the kidney of dad Chris Boucher and the abdomen of his then 2 year old daughter Lucy, in an innovative step before the transplant operation. We spoke exclusively with the Boucher family and the transplant surgeon Pankaj Chandal, who came up with the idea, on the Victoria Derbyshire programme.