Addenbrooke's Hospital
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Addenbrooke's Hospital is a large teaching hospital and research centre in Cambridge, England, with strong affiliations to the University of Cambridge.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Addenbrooke's Hospital is located on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. It is run by Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and is a designated academic health science centre. It is also the East of England's major trauma centre and was the first such centre to be operational in the United Kingdom.<ref name=":0" />
History
Template:Infobox UK legislation The hospital was founded in 1766 on Trumpington Street with £4,500 from the will of Dr John Addenbrooke, a fellow of St Catharine's College.<ref name=archives>Template:Cite web</ref> In 1962 the first building was opened on its present site,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> on the southern edge of the city at the end of Hills Road. The last patient left the Trumpington Street site in 1984 and the site was redeveloped in the 1990s – it is now occupied by the Cambridge Judge Business School (in the former main building), as well as Browns Brasserie & Bar (in the former adjacent outpatients building).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> A new elective care facility was procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract in 2004, It was built by Alfred McAlpine and designed by Llewelyn Davies Architects at a cost of £85 million and completed in spring 2007.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Notable staff
- Margaret Morgan, (1864– ) matron, 1901–1904<ref name=":1">Rogers, Sarah (2022). 'A Maker of Matrons’? A study of Eva Lückes’s influence on a generation of nurse leaders:1880–1919' (Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Huddersfield, April 2022)</ref>
- Alice Blomfield, (1866–1938) matron, 1905–1908<ref name=":1" />
Both these matrons trained at The London Hospital under Eva Luckes. Luckes adopted Florence Nightingale's belief that the new style of matron should be autonomous and solely responsible for their staff. However, as with the Guy's Hospital Dispute these new style of matrons sometimes had issues with the acceptance of their autonomy. Morgan felt that she had an issue with the acceptance of her authority by some medical staff, and left after three years.<ref name=":1" /><ref>House Committee Weekly Meeting, 11 June 1902; Addenbrooke’s Hospital Minute Book, 1901–1903; AHGR/3/1/1/36, 226–229; Addenbrooke’s Archives, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge</ref><ref>Arthur Rook, Margaret Carlton, and W. Graham Cannon, The History of Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991</ref> Blomfield also experienced an unspecified problem between herself and the medical staff.<ref name=":1" /><ref>----General Committee Weekly Meeting, 1 June 1908; Addenbrooke’s Hospital Minute Book, 1907–1909; AHGR/3/1/1/40, 289–295; Addenbrooke’s Archives, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge</ref><ref>General Committee Weekly Meeting, 1 June 1908; Addenbrooke’s Hospital Minute Book, 1907–1909; AHGR/3/1/1/40, 289–295; Addenbrooke’s Archives, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge</ref>
Services
Addenbrooke's Hospital provides a full range of clinical services, with two exceptions: cardiothoracic surgery is performed at the adjacent Royal Papworth Hospital (which re-located to the Cambridge Biomedical Campus in 2019);<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and maternity services are provided at the adjacent Rosie Hospital, which has a midwife-led birth unit and birth pool.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Addenbrooke's Hospital is a designated major trauma centre.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> This was the first regional major trauma centre in England to become fully operational and was featured on the BBC documentary series 'Life Savers' in 2013.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref>
Addenbrooke's Hospital is a tertiary referral centre for a number of specialities. It is one of the UK's seven liver transplant centres and performs multivisceral transplants. It is a busy regional neurosurgical centre<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and has the largest neurological intensive care unit of its kind in Europe. It is also a centre of excellence for renal services, bone marrow transplantation, cleft lip and palate reconstruction, treatment of rare cancers, medical genetics, and paediatrics. Addenbrooke's Hospital is also the designated regional centre for pancreatic, biliary and liver cancer surgery and tertiary referral centre for complex pancreatitis. 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).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Addenbrooke's Hospital is an internationally renowned transplant centre. Addenbrooke's Hospital transplant surgeons have made many notable contributions to the world of transplantation.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
The Cambridge Biomedical Campus has an on-site helipad, for the numerous air ambulances that visit - often transporting patients in a critical state to the major trauma centre at Addenbrooke's Hospital.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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 Park and Ride sites, of which Babraham Road and Trumpington are nearest.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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 Cambridgeshire Guided Busway 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Bicycle
Various cycleways lead to Addenbrooke's Hospital and a new cycleway and footpath linking Great Shelford and Addenbrooke's Hospital opened in August 2006, which also marks the 10,000th mile of the National Cycle Network.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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 multi-storey car park 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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 Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras to monitor traffic entering and leaving the site without stopping. The police have power to issue Fixed Penalty Notices to drivers who are not authorised to use the route.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Rail
The nearest railway station to the campus is Template:Rws. A new station, Template:Rws, is intended to serve the campus from 2026 onwards.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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 mortuary, the pathology laboratories, the hospital roof, and one of the operating theatres. In March 2016, over 5,000 visitors attended the event.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Fundraising
Template:Main 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 Hospital for the benefit of patients and staff, by raising extra funds to enhance services, facilities and research.<ref>Template:EW charity</ref>
Incidents
In 2010 the Hospital carried out CT scan on mummified child dating from the third century AD in the collection of Saffron Walden Museum.<ref name=riggs>Template:Cite journal</ref>
In 2011 an Addenbrooke's Hospital 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 Hospital was found to have acted unlawfully in denying the patient life saving treatment.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In 2015 an Addenbrooke's Hospital doctor was jailed for 22 years for abusing 18 boys at the hospital, between 2009 and 2013.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In April 2016 Addenbrooke's Hospital 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 Organisation guidelines.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Mackay was reported to be in tears, and died six days later.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In 2016, Joan Hawes, who had attended Addenbrooke's A&E with a suspected deep vein thrombosis, was reportedly discharged without investigations for deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism or Venous thrombosis, and died overnight at home.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In April 2021 a United States Air Force CV22 Osprey helicopter damaged the hospital helipad as it took off.<ref name=bbc-addenbrooks-hospital-helipad-destroyed>Template:Cite news</ref> East Anglian Air Ambulance and Magpas were temporarily diverted to Cambridge City Airport while the site was cleared of debris.<ref name=bbc-addenbrooks-hospital-helipad-destroyed/>
In May 2023, a member of staff working as a consultant physician was reported to have inappropriately accessed medical records to obtain personal details relating to their former partner's new partner.<ref name=guardian-warnings-over-NHS-data-privacy>Template:Cite news</ref>