About us

Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) is one of the country’s leading NHS Foundation Trusts. Through our hospitals Addenbrooke’s and the Rosie we provide local healthcare services, we are a centre for specialist care, and also a world-class teaching hospital and centre for biomedical research.

 

 

Our vision is to be one of the best academic healthcare organisations in the world excelling in patient care, teaching and biomedical research.

 

Our purpose is to deliver innovation and excellence in health and care in everything we do:

• in patient care
• as a university teaching hospital
• through research and development

Our priorities are to focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Our five priorities keep us focused on what is important and drive us towards excellence – respecting each other as colleagues, working together for better patient care and sharing our goals as a developing and dynamic organisation

• 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

Our values to be kind, safe and excellent
Our values define the way we work and behave towards our patients, partners and each other

 

 

For CUH this is Our way of working, Our way of behaving, Our way of striving for excellence in all we do – for our patients, for staff, for our hospitals and for our community.

 

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Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – known as CUH – runs Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital. The independent Dr Foster Hospital Guide ranks us as the safest hospital in the region and the second-safest in the country.

 

Both Addenbrooke’s and the Rosie are recognised as centres of medical excellence and innovation, and our role in Cambridge University Health Partners – one of the first NHS academic health science centres – makes this one of the richest pools of clinical and scientific knowledge and expertise in the NHS.

 

As an internationally-known university teaching hospital, we provide specialist services dealing with rare or complex conditions that need the most modern facilities, the most up-to-date treatment, and the best doctors, nurses, and clinical staff. Our values – to be kind, safe and excellent – define the way we work and behave.

 

 

One of the best in the NHS

In 2008/09, the Health Service Journal picked CUH as the best acute hospital in the NHS. The Care Quality Commission rates us as ‘good’ for both the quality of our services and the way we use our resources. Our Emergency Department is top in the region for trauma, and our maternity services are rated as ‘best performing’, with the highest ranking in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. Overall, surveys show that we meet or exceed 94 per cent of patients’ expectations.

 

Through Addenbrooke’s Hospital, we provide emergency, surgical and medical services for people living in the Cambridge area – but we are also a centre of excellence for regional specialist services like organ transplantation, cancer, neurosciences, paediatrics and genetics.

 

On the same site, the Rosie Hospital offers maternity and women’s services, with its own theatre suite, fetal assessment unit, ultrasound department, and neonatal intensive care unit. It is the regional centre of excellence for maternity care, and also provides gynaecology services to the local and regional population.

 

 

Protecting patients

CUH is achieving all infection control targets, achieving impressive improvements in recent years. In 2007/08 there were up to 40 cases of Clostridium difficile a month; in October 2009 there was just a single case acquired in the hospital. From 2006/07 to 2007/08, MRSA bloodstream infections fell by 49 per cent. Our most recent unannounced Care Quality Commission inspection found no areas of concern and recognised that we are protecting patients, workers and others from healthcare-related infections.

> Infection control

 

 

World-class specialists

Many of our specialists are leaders in their fields. This means that care is of the highest standard and that local patients benefit from having a concentration of medical expertise on their doorstep.

 

Our partnerships with the Medical Research Council and Cambridge University, and our role as part of Cambridge University Health Partners – one of the first NHS academic health science centres – make this one of the largest and most internationally-competitive concentrations of healthcare expertise in Europe. Patients who choose to be treated here are already seeing the benefits of our world-class research.

> Cambridge University Health Partners

 

 

The future

In the near future, the hospital site – the Cambridge Biomedical Campus – is set to double in size, with new clinical facilities including a children’s hospital, expanded services for maternity, neurosciences and cancer, and the relocated Papworth Hospital.

> Vision to reality - 21st century patient care

 

 

 

The Trust in detail for 2009/10

• Around 1,160 beds

• Around 7,000 staff

• 90,353 A&E attendances             

• 66,613 inpatient admissions

• 446,540 visits to outpatients                                  

• 5,711 births              

• 33 operating theatres

• five intensive care units                                

• Around 40 wards

• 7 divisions: cancer, children’s & women’s, emergency & perioperative care, investigative sciences, medicine, neurosciences, surgery

• An income of around £556 million

 

 

 

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