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Addenbrooke's Hospital is an internationally renowned large
teaching hospital A teaching hospital is a hospital or medical centre that provides medical education and training to future and current health professionals. Teaching hospitals are almost always affiliated with one or more universities and are often co-located ...
and research centre in
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,
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, with strong affiliations to the
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. Addenbrooke's Hospital is based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. The hospital is run by
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a British public sector healthcare provider located in Cambridge, England. It was established on 4 November 1992 as Addenbrooke's National Health Service Trust, and authorised as an NHS fou ...
and is a designated
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. It is also the East of England's major trauma centre and was the first such centre to be operational in the United Kingdom.


History

The hospital was founded in 1766 on
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with £4,500 from the will of Dr John Addenbrooke, a fellow of St Catharine's College. In 1962 the first building was opened on its present site, on the southern edge of the city at the end of
Hills Road Hills Road is an arterial road (part of the A1307) in southeast Cambridge, England. It runs between Regent Street at the junction with Lensfield Road and Gonville Place (the A603) to the northwest and a roundabout by the Cambridge Bi ...
. The last patient left the old site in 1984 - the old site is now occupied by the
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, as well as Browns Brasserie & Bar. A new elective care facility was procured under a
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contract in 2004, It was built by
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and designed by Llewelyn Davies Architects at a cost of £85 million and completed in spring 2007.


Services

Addenbrooke's provides a full range of clinical services, with two exceptions:
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is performed at the adjacent
Royal Papworth Hospital Royal Papworth Hospital is a specialist heart and lung hospital, located on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus in Cambridgeshire, England. The Hospital is run by Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The hospital is a world-leading cardiot ...
(which re-located to the Cambridge Biomedical Campus in 2019); maternity services are provided at the adjacent
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, which has a midwife-led birth unit and
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. Addenbrooke's is a designated Major Trauma Centre. This was the first regional Major Trauma Centre in
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to become fully operational and was featured on the BBC documentary series 'Life Savers' in 2013. Addenbrooke's is a tertiary referral centre for a number of specialities. It is one of the UK's seven
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transplant centres and performs multivisceral transplants. It is a busy regional
neurosurgical Neurosurgery or neurological surgery, known in common parlance as brain surgery, is the medical specialty concerned with the surgical treatment of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spinal cord and ...
centre and has the largest
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of its kind in
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. It is also a centre of excellence for
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services,
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,
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and palate reconstruction, treatment of rare
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,
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, and
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. Addenbrooke's is also the designated regional centre for
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,
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and
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surgery and tertiary referral centre for complex
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. It has 37 operating theatres, and in addition to the neurosciences (neurosurgery and neurology) critical care unit it also has an adult, a paediatric, and a neonatal intensive care service, and several high-dependency areas (adult, paediatric, transplant, surgical, coronary care). Addenbrooke's is an internationally renowned transplant centre. Addenbrooke's transplant surgeons have made many notable contributions to the world of transplantation. The hospital had an on-site helipad, for the numerous
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that visit - often transporting patients in a critical state to the Major Trauma Centre.


Transport


Bus

The campus is served by a busy bus station, located on its gateway roundabout, with up to 60 buses arriving there every hour. Addenbrooke's hospital is directly accessible from three of Cambridge's five
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sites, of which Babraham Road and Trumpington are nearest. The green Park and Ride buses from the Babraham Park and Ride stop at its main bus station, while the busway service A connects various locations around the site to Trumpington Park and Ride and the
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network. Busway service U from and to Eddington has a stop at the Madingley Road Park and Ride and one outside the hospital's outpatient entrance. All three services also stop at the Cambridge railway station.


Bicycle

Various cycle ways lead to Addenbrooke's hospital and a new cycleway and footpath linking Great Shelford and Addenbrooke's opened in August 2006, which also marks the 10,000th mile of the
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.


Car

Parking is increasingly restricted, as former car parks are being built on, and staff, patients and visitors are encouraged to travel in by bus or bike. A new
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with 1050 spaces for visitor and patient parking and a further 63 for disabled parking was opened on 18 April 2008. There is a customer service desk and concession tickets are available for outpatients with appointments. Transport remains something of a problem due to the volume of people arriving each day – there are approximately 8,000 car movements each day, but only 3,200 car parking spaces available (as of March 2004). With three proposed developments around the hospital including an extension of the hospital site itself and two residential developments traffic is expected to increase considerably. For this reason work for a new access road from Hauxton Road in Trumpington to Addenbrooke's Hospital began in July 2007. The £25million new road opened in October 2010 and provides direct access from the M11 to the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, home to the hospital. It is expected to handle up to 25,000 journeys per day when nearby residential developments are complete. The route was originally intended for access to the hospital only and as such, entrances to the Cambridge Biomedical Campus are fitted with
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cameras to monitor traffic entering and leaving the site without stopping. The police have power to issue
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s to drivers who are not authorised to use the route.


Rail

The nearest railway station to the campus is
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; however a new station,
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, is intended to serve the campus from 2025 onwards.


Open days

The hospital holds a free open day to allow members of the public to visit areas of the hospital which would usually be inaccessible. The tours include visits to the basement service corridors, the hospital's
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, the pathology laboratories, the hospital roof, and one of the operating theatres. In March 2016, over 5,000 visitors attended the event.


Fundraising

Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust (ACT) is the independent registered charity for Addenbrooke's Hospital and its associated hospitals. Its aim is to support and promote the work of Addenbrooke's for the benefit of patients and staff, by raising extra funds to enhance services, facilities and research.


Incidents

In 2011 an Addenbrooke's doctor placed a “do not resuscitate” instruction on a patient's notes without consultation with either the patient or the family. The patient later died, and following a court case in 2014 Addenbrooke's was found to have acted unlawfully in denying the patient life saving treatment. In 2012, Dr Narinder Kapur, consultant neuropsychologist and Head of the Neuropsychology Service won a case of unfair dismissal against Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Kapur raised patient-safety concerns, such as the use of unqualified staff in clinics, which were later vindicated by an internal report. In 2015 an Addenbrooke's doctor named Myles Bradbury was jailed for 22 years for abusing 18 boys at the hospital, between 2009 and 2013. In April 2016 Addenbrooke's was criticised for the treatment of Prof. Sir David J.C. Mackay. Mackay was unable to sleep, being kept awake by noisy staff, excessive heating, lights, and loud machinery that exceeded World Health Organization guidelines. Mackay was reported to be in tears, and died six days later. In April 2021 a
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CV22 Osprey helicopter damaged the hospital helipad as it took off. East Anglian Air Ambulance and
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were temporarily diverted to Cambridge City Airport while the site was cleared of debris.


See also

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Healthcare in Cambridgeshire Healthcare in Cambridgeshire was the responsibility of NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group until July 2022. This was one of the largest in the United Kingdom. History From 1947 to 1965, NHS services in Cambridgeshi ...
*
List of hospitals in England The following is a list of hospitals in England. For NHS trusts, see the list of NHS Trusts. East Midlands * Arnold Lodge, Leicestershire * Babington Hospital – Belper, Derbyshire *Bassetlaw District General Hospital – Worksop, Nottingha ...


References


External links

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University of Cambridge pages about the Addenbrooke's site

The Medical School

Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust (ACT)

Browns Brasserie & Bar, Cambridge
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