Royal Papworth Hospital

Royal Papworth Hospital
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
The existing hospital's front entrance.
Location within Cambridgeshire
Geography
Location	Papworth Everard, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates	52°14′53″N 0°06′39″W / 52.248057°N 0.110770°W / 52.248057; -0.110770Coordinates: 52°14′53″N 0°06′39″W / 52.248057°N 0.110770°W / 52.248057; -0.110770
Organisation
Care system	Public NHS
Hospital type	Specialist
Affiliated university	University of Cambridge Medical School
Services
Emergency department	No Accident & Emergency
Beds	240
Speciality	Cardiothoracic hospital
History
Founded	1918
Links
Website	royalpapworth.nhs.uk
Lists	Hospitals in England

Royal Papworth Hospital is a leading heart and lung hospital, located in Papworth Everard in Cambridgeshire, England. It was home to the first successful heart transplant in the UK, the world's first successful heart, lung and liver transplant,^[1] and one of the world's first non-beating-heart transplants.^[2] Royal Papworth Hospital is due to move to new premises on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus in spring 2019.^[3][4][5][6]

History

Papworth Hospital was founded in 1918 as a sanitorium for the treatment of tuberculosis among discharged soldiers who had served in the First World War, following a campaign led by Elsbeth Dimsdale, and was initially known as the “Cambridgeshire Tuberculosis Colony”.^[7] The institution was initially under the direction of Dr (later Sir) Pendrill Varrier-Jones.^[8][9][10] From the 1950s, surgical facilities developed, beginning with thoracic (chest/lung) surgery and expanding to cardiac surgery. Surgeon Ben Milstein performed the first open-heart surgery at Papworth Hospital in September 1958.^[11][12]

In August 1979, surgeon Terence English performed the first successful heart transplant in the UK at Papworth Hospital. The patient, Keith Castle, lived for over five years following his surgery.^[13] In August 1994 a team of doctors carried out a revolutionary operation when 62-year-old Arthur Cornhill was given the world's first permanent battery-operated heart.^[14]

New Papworth Hospital

In December 2013 it was announced that the hospital would move to the Cambridge Biomedical Campus next to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge. Implementation of the scheme was temporarily delayed,^[15] following an intervention by HM Treasury, while the Trust investigated an alternative proposal of moving to the Peterborough City Hospital site, a concept to which there was considerable opposition given the financial problems at that hospital.^[16] In March 2015, the hospital announced that its move to the Cambridge Biomedical Campus was being procured under a private finance initiative contract.^[17] The construction works, which are being carried out by Skanska at a cost of £165 million, started immediately.^[3] They are expected to be complete, following some rectification to the cladding, in spring 2019.^[18]

In May 2014, a new CT Scanner was unveiled at the hospital by its royal patron, the Duchess of Gloucester.^[19] In September 2017, Papworth Hospital was granted the designation “royal” by the Queen and so became Royal Papworth Hospital in January 2018.^[20]

Fundraising is also taking place for a Heart and Lung Research Institute, a joint venture between Papworth Hospital and the University of Cambridge, to be built on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus adjacent to the new hospital.^[21]

Services

The Papworth site has two main building complexes: the main building (providing cardiology and all surgical services, together with the intensive care unit) and the Chest Medical Unit (providing respiratory medicine services). Sub-specialities include:^[22]

Those based in the Bernhard Baron Building, also called the Chest Medical Unit:^[22]

• the Respiratory Support and Sleep Centre, providing services for patients with sleep disorders (including common disorders such as obstructive sleep apnea and less common ones such as narcolepsy) and those with ventilatory failure (from conditions such as COPD or neuromuscular disorders including motor neuron disease and poliomyelitis). The service provides non-invasive ventilation and also accepts referrals from other intensive care units to wean patients from invasive ventilation;
• the pulmonary hypertension (PH) service (Papworth is one of the four UK Pulmonary Hypertension centres and the only one providing pulmonary thromboendarterectomy);
• the adult cystic fibrosis service;
• the Lung Defense service, for patients with recurrent lung infection, including those with bronchiectasis and immunodeficiency;
• the thoracic oncology (lung cancer) service;
• the ataxia telangiectasia service;
• services for patients with pulmonary fibrosis, vasculitis, and rare diseases including granulomatosis with polyangiitis and pulmonary alveolar proteinosis.

Those based in the Christopher Parish Building:^[22]

• cardiac surgery, including heart transplantation, coronary artery bypass grafting, heart valve surgery, and pulmonary thromboendarterectomy;
• thoracic surgery, including lung cancer resection and lung transplantation;
• cardiology, including coronary angiography and coronary angioplasty, plus facilities for cardiac electrophysiology and catheter ablation, pacemaker insertion, implantable cardiac defibrillator, transcatheter structural heart procedures such as valve implantation
• intensive care services.

Notable patients

On 23 December 2011, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, then 90 years of age, underwent successful coronary angioplasty and stenting at Papworth Hospital.^[27][28]

See also

• Healthcare in Cambridgeshire
• List of hospitals in England

References

External links

• New Papworth Hospital website
• Papworth Hospital Papworth Hospital website
• Respiratory Support and Sleep Centre microsite
• Papworth Direct microsite
• The Papworth Hospital Charity website
• The Papworth Hospital Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care website
• Papworth Clinic website for the Papworth's Private Patients' Centre