Cambridge University Hospitals, one of the first Foundation Trusts, is a 1,000 bed teaching hospital, one of the Government’s new biomedical research centres with a world-class research reputation, whilst also providing acute and specialist services for our local and regional population.
What makes Cambridge University Hospitals stand out from the other hospitals in the United Kingdom ?
World-class research in cancer, neurosciences, genetics, diabetes and transplant medicine; partnership with Cambridge University and the Medical Research Council from which stems 12 Nobel Laureates; leading-edge clinical care; our partnership with a world-renowned medical school and the quality, expertise and commitment of the people who work at the Trust.
One of the largest and best known hospitals in the country, our name is synonymous with excellence giving us a national and international reputation.
These are the essential elements of our character. However, what takes us a step further is our philosophy of care which explores smarter more efficient ways of working and which puts our patients at the centre of this care.
All this gives the Trust expertise, vision and diversity in a service which seeks to innovate and strives for excellence in delivering first-class healthcare.
History Of Addenbrookes Hospital
1766 - 2007,The Trust may be a household name today, but it is also a hospital with a history. In 1719 Dr John Addenbrooke, a fellow and former bursar of St Catharine’s College, left £4,500 in his will for a hospital to be built in Cambridge . One of the first provincial voluntary hospitals in Britain, Addenbrooke’s first opened its doors in 1766 in Trumpington Street in Cambridge with just 20 beds and 11 patients.
During the 18th and 19th centuries the hospital grew rapidly as medical science developed. By the 1950s the hospital was having difficulty accommodating the expansion generated by the introduction of the National Health Service, and in the early 1960s the hospital began a staged move to its present 66-acre campus in Hills Road on the southern outskirts of Cambridge .
The first stage of the hospital development on the Hills Road campus was opened by the Queen in 1962, and from that day onwards the hospital has continued to grow.
