Addenbrooke's Hospital
Research and Development
The Rosie Hospital
Care Quality Commission statement of purpose
Declarations – our pledges to you
Introduction
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. We also operate at other locations providing satellite and outreach services to meet the needs of patients.
The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions, for a regional, national and international population. The Trust is recognised as a centre of excellence and innovation with many of the hospital specialists being leaders in their field.
Services provided include emergency, surgical, medical, women’s and maternity services, paediatrics, specialist services such as liver transplantation, neurosciences, renal services, bone and marrow transplantation, cleft lip and palate reconstruction, treatment of rare cancers and medical genetics.
The Trust is internationally renowned for its partnership with the University of Cambridge and as a world-class centre for medical research. The Trust works with a number of research partners, for example, the Medical Research Council (MRC), Cancer Research UK and The Wellcome Trust, to make the Cambridge Biomedical Campus an internationally leading centre for biomedical and translational research.
The Cambridge Biomedical Campus is set to double in size over the next 10 years. The development of the campus will allow for the integration of the three core activities of clinical care, research and teaching. In terms of clinical care, there will be new clinical facilities including a children’s hospital, expanded services for maternity, neurosciences and cancer, and the relocated Papworth Hospital. The development will provide facilities for the undertaking of large scale clinical research as well as the training of staff and others associated with delivering healthcare in combined facilities.
Our commitment to our patients and our community is as an open, accountable and responsive organisation that fosters patient and public involvement, which we consider is crucial to the development of a modern hospital fit for the 21st century. The Trust achieved NHS Foundation Trust status in July 2004 and as such has a Board of Governors and a membership of approximately 23,000, comprising patients, staff and members of the public who are actively involved with the Trust in ensuring that our services reflect the needs of those using them.
The Trust has established key priorities which focus on providing a safe, equitable and quality service to our patients, staff and partners and specifically include:
- improving the experience of patients
- improving patient care and safety
- ensuring clinical excellence and effectiveness
- valuing our staff and partners
- striving for innovation in all we do
Registration with the Care Quality Commission
The Trust is registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to deliver the regulated activities at the set locations as described below. The Trust is committed to the ongoing maintenance of compliance with the Care Quality Commission’s ‘Essential Standards of Quality and Safety’ and will monitor compliance against the standards on an ongoing basis through internal monitoring processes.
For further information on the Care Quality Commission’s essential standards of quality and safety, please follow the following link to their website:
If you require any further information about our services, have any concerns regarding your care or would like to make a comment or complaint, please click on the following link:
Regulated activities and Locations
The Trust is registered with the Care Quality Commission to provide the following regulated activities in the said locations:
1. Surgical procedures
Location: Addenbrooke’s and The Rosie Hospitals, Hills Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 0QQ
Addenbrooke’s and The Rosie Hospitals provide general and specialist adult and paediatric surgery in Cambridge on an inpatient, day case and outpatient basis as well as for emergency patients and has in excess of 30 operating theatres to support this activity.
Surgical specialties provided include General Surgery, Ear, Nose and Throat, Ophthalmology, Oral Maxillofacial Surgery, Orthopaedics and Trauma, Plastic Surgery, Transplantation, Urology, Neurosurgery, Gynaecology and Paediatric Surgery.
The Trust has a large Anaesthetic Department to support the surgical services offering general, local and regional anaesthetic techniques to patients, in addition to the provision of a designated Pain Management Service.
Location: Hinchingbrooke Hospital, Hinchingbrooke Park, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE29 6NT
The Trust provides a paediatric surgery service comprising of day case lists and an outpatient clinic at Hinchingbrooke Hospital. The surgical specialities covered are general paediatric surgery and paediatric urology. This service is provided for children aged 1 year and above who are suitable for day surgery.
Location: Princess of Wales Hospital, Lynn Road, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB6 1DN
The Trust performs day case surgery at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Ely. A range of surgical specialities are provided including maxillofacial, plastics, orthopaedics, general surgery, chronic pain interventions and urology, using a mix of general and local anaesthetic techniques. The service is provided to patients from age 4 and above who are suitable for day surgery.
2. Treatment of disease, disorder or injury
Location: Addenbrooke’s and The Rosie Hospitals, Hills Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 0QQ
The Trust provides emergency, medical and surgical services for the treatment of disease, disorder or injury on an inpatient, day case and outpatient basis for both elective and emergency patients of all ages.
The Emergency Department is the front door for the Addenbrooke's Emergency Assessment Unit (EAU). The EAU is designed to provide one access point for all emergency patients. The EAU deals with emergency admissions of all types, including those patients who are referred by their GP or who self present, or are brought in by the Ambulance. The EAU also has a dedicated children’s area for the assessment and treatment of children.
Medical specialties provided by the Trust include a wide range of specialist and non-specialist services including, Acute, Respiratory, Allergy, Cardiology, Clinical Pharmacology, Dermatology, Endocrinology and Diabetes, Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, Genito-urinary medicine, Hepatology, Medicine for the Elderly, Metabolic Bone Disease, Metabolic Medicine, Renal Medicine, Rheumatology, Neurology, Rehabilitation, Disablement Service, Stroke services and Oncology.
The Surgical Specialties provided by the Trust are set out in section 1 titled ‘Surgical Procedures’.
The provision of treatment for disease, disorder and injury is supported by established Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Radiology, Pharmacy and Dietetic Services. In addition critical care facilities are provided including an Adult Intensive Care Unit, a High Dependency Unit, a Neuro Critical Care Unit and a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit.
Location: Hinchingbrooke Hospital, Hinchingbrooke Park, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE29 6NT / West Suffolk Hospital, Hardwick Lane, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk IP33 2QZ / Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gayton Road, Kings Lynn, Norfolk PE30 4ET.
In addition to the dialysis centre located on the main hospital site, the Trust operates three satellite dialysis units based at Hinchingbrooke Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Hospital and West Suffolk Hospital. These units provide renal replacement therapy for patients with renal failure in East Anglia.
3. Maternity and midwifery services
Location: Addenbrooke’s and The Rosie Hospitals, Hills Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 0QQ
The Trust provides full maternity services through the Rosie Hospital including antenatal, intrapartum and post-natal care and currently undertakes around 5,700 births annually.
Facilities include Antenatal and Postnatal wards, an Outpatient facility, Fetal Assessment Unit, Scan Department, Theatre suite, Delivery Unit (including home-from-home facilities and a birthing pool), Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) including Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) and Community Neonatal Team.
In addition, the maternity service provides the Rosie Birth Centre which includes a birthing room and postnatal beds for the delivery of midwifery led one-to-one care.
A comprehensive anaesthetic service providing support for both elective and emergency procedures is provided, in addition to a pain management service including a 24 hour epidural service for labour.
A team of Community Midwives are based at The Rosie Hospital, providing antenatal and postnatal care to the women of Cambridge and the surrounding geographical area.
4. Termination of pregnancies
Location: Addenbrooke’s and The Rosie Hospitals, Hills Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 0QQ
As part of the Trust’s gynaecological services a termination of pregnancy service is provided. The service offers both medical and surgical termination of pregnancy. Advice and support is also provided by specialist nursing staff, a midwifery counsellor and bereavement co-ordinator.
5. Diagnostic and screening procedures
Location: Addenbrooke’s and The Rosie Hospitals, Hills Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 0QQ
A wide range of diagnostic and screening procedures including X-ray, ultrasound, CT, MRI, PET/CT, Endoscopy and other specialist imaging techniques are provided at Addenbrooke’s hospital and The Rosie Hospital to patients of all ages.
Our pathology services are based in Cambridge and offer a comprehensive range of services including Clinical Biochemistry and Immunology; Histopathology and Cytology; Clinical Microbiology; Serum Screening; Clinical Haematology and Blood Transfusion; Tissue Typing and Medical Genetics service.
The Trust also provides screening services as part of the National Screening Programme, for example, breast cancer screening, bowel cancer screening and cervical cancer screening. Our cervical cancer screening service is based at Westbrooke House, Newmarket.
Location: Saffron Walden Community Hospital, Radwinter Road, Saffron Walden, Essex, CB11 3HY
The Trust operates a plain film and non-obstetric ultrasound service at Saffron Walden Community Hospital serving all age groups.
Location: Spire Cambridge Lea Hospital, 30 New Road, Impington, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB24 9EL
The Trust operates an MRI Scanner facility for both private and NHS patients aged 10 years and above.
Location: Papworth Hospital, Papworth Everard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB23 3RE
The Trust provides pathology services at Papworth Hospital, including haematology, blood transfusion and clinical biochemistry. This service is provided to adults only.
Note: The regulated activity of “diagnostic and screening procedures” also encompasses physiological measurement, where equipment is used e.g. measuring blood pressure using a sphygmomanometer. Therefore, all of the Trust’s individual “locations” are registered to provide this activity.
6. Accommodation for people who require treatment for substance misuse
Location: Addenbrooke’s and The Rosie Hospitals, Hills Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 0QQ
In conjunction with Cambridge and Peterborough Foundation Trust (CPFT), the Trust provides a service to patients who require treatment for substance misuse, mainly alcohol and drug-related problems. Patients are screened, both on an elective and non-elective basis e.g. through the Emergency Department. There is a specialist Drug and Alcohol Liaison Nurse (DALN) and a Consultant for Substance Misuse who assess patients with alcohol or substance misuse problems in order to facilitate safe management of their addiction whilst in hospital and also liaison with community services when discharged.
7. Assessment or medical treatment for people detained under the Mental Health Act 1983
Location: Addenbrooke’s and The Rosie Hospitals, Hills Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 0QQ
The Trust cares for patients detained under the Mental Health Act who need hospital treatment. The liaison psychiatry service ensures that patient’s mental health needs are met whilst they are in hospital. The Trust liaises with the relevant mental health trust to prepare for a patient’s discharge. The Trust has 24-hour cover to deal with psychiatric emergencies and to provide a review on request.
Nominated Individual
The Trust’s nominated individual responsible for overseeing all registered activities in all locations is:
Dr Karen Castille, OBE
Chief Nurse and Operating Officer
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Hills Road
Cambridge
CB2 0QQ
Trust telephone number: 01223 245 151
Dr Castille is the Executive Board Member with responsibility for nursing, operational management and organisational development. She began her NHS career as a nurse and midwife and since moving into management has worked in a number of NHS organisations. She has experience in leading transformational change in the NHS at national and local levels and in 2005 received an OBE for her national work in emergency care. She has gained a number of management qualifications during her career including a Doctorate in Leadership and Change in 2006 from Henley Management College.
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Hills Road
Cambridge CB2 0QQ
Tel: 01223 245 151
